Microsoft has just purchased 25% of Corel's outstanding stocks and
have formed a strategic alliance that will see the two companies
expand their relationship to encompass projects related to Microsoft's
new .NET initiative.
Microsoft has purchased 24 million non-voting convertible preferred
shares at a purchase price of U.S.$5.625 per share ($2 more than
market value) for a total purchase price of U.S. $135 million.
http://www.newsalert.com/bin/story?StoryId=CoDGiqdCbmtiYtG
I expect that, however benign it may be for the Corel Linux division,
there will be an open source community backlash against their Linux
distribution; this will probably further cement us at the top of the
distro heap.
Not to put any pressure on the 7.2 quality assurance people ;) but
according to posts in linux-kernel, the RH 7.0 has selected a raft of
questionably stable versions for core components, and now Corel has
virtually blacklisted itself. You _know_ who that leaves ...
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