ey do...moved back over to
>solaris...bottom line, microsoft do use *nix.
>
>Robert.
>
>
>>From: Mark Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>To: "LinuxNewbie (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: RE: [newbie] Microsoft bails out Corel!!
> >Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:05:50 -0500
> >
> >In my mind, it seems like running something in wine is a bit of a kludge -
> >especially a full
> FYI, here's another article about Corel. It purports that the reason for
> this bail out is so Microsoft could offer WordPerfect as open-source to
> compete against the release of Star Office on the 13th, apparently to
This is nothing more than a wild-ass speculation just like the ones I and
That is odd, i remember reading that they just moved Hotmail over to
win2000...
markOpoleO
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Mark Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:05:50 -0500
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>In my mind, it seems like running something in wine is a bit
Actually no, it runs great! Also, it's only the word processor that's
running on wine, everything else in the suite has been ported.
Mike
>In my mind, it seems like running something in wine is a bit of a kludge -
>especially a full blown productivity app...
while
WordPerfect is made open source.
Interesting...
-rick
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From: Larry Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 10:05 AM
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> hmm, maybe i'm just naive but so what if
In my mind, it seems like running something in wine is a bit of a kludge -
especially a full blown productivity app...
-Original Message-
From: Larry Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 10:05 AM
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Subject: RE: [newbie] Microsoft bails
> hmm, maybe i'm just naive but so what if MS bails out Corel as far as linux
> goes. There is/was nothing stopping MS from creating their own distribution
> of linux nor stopping them from building applications for Linux. I can't
> believe that there aren't any MS programmers running linux
as far as corel linux, from everything i have heard in the linux community
its not that big of a loss, and if microshaft ports a linux distro which i
doughbt given bill gates quote of linux that its just a fad and is not a
stable or reliable system (he obviously downloaded the wrong linux distr
.deep in the far reaches of the Gates islands in the large gates mansion
runs an interesting peculiarity. as we hear the clacking away at key strokes
we come across the horid creature of the gates and on his monitor a large
penguin is dancing away, as the behimith screaches LINUX ROCKS!
Microsoft.com. Though that might intrest you users wondering if Microsoft
uses Linux. :)
markOpoleO
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From: "Mark Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 8:11 AM
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nux at home (or at
work) and I wouldn't be surprised to find out that apache is running
somewhere in that company.
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From: Mike & Tracy Holt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 10:07 PM
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Subject: RE: [newbie] Microsoft
Yeah...really. they should stick to makeing office suites.
--
Mark
~~~
...someone once asked Annie Sullivan what she saw in a man she was
considering as perspective suiter who had a terrible case of acne.
Annie was reported to have replied, "His face is an easy read!"
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000 2:44pm
> Well, we all should go down and buy their products. I'm thinking about buying
> the wordperfect suite. The one thing I wouldnt buy from them is Corel Linux.
No thanks. If they'd actually ported their suite to Linux I'd be the first in
line but I don't need Franken-Windows applications ru
> turns StarOffice into something decent. Wordperfect was buggy, like all
> commercial software. They should have made it opensource. A shame RedHat
> couldn't buy Corel. They do have some useful software I'd like to see
> opensourced.
What would you do with it? Large chunks of Word Perfect
It doesn't matter. Both Gnome and KDE are quickly working towards very
usable office products and of course there is always the chance that Sun
turns StarOffice into something decent. Wordperfect was buggy, like all
commercial software. They should have made it opensource. A shame RedHat
couldn't
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