On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 10:52:27PM -0500, Jim Cornette wrote: > The concept was to load wordperfect under Linux. Also WordPerfect was > working on a program that was able to run Microsoft applications under > Linux. MicroSoft bought WordPerfect out and closed development on the > project and stripped out the code WordPerfect developed for the feat. This isn't quite accurate. Corel made use of the open-source Wine project to port their code to Linux (using it in its "Wine-is-not-an-emulator" role). They did make contributions back to the open source project, but I'm not sure how extensive they were. > I was going to buy it when it came out. I believe there was a version of > WordPerfect Linux that actually made it to the stores. I do not know It was a free download; I'm not sure if it was actually also available in physical stores for money. > whatever happened to the information on the web. > I'll try WordPerfect Linux to see what comes up. Yes, good idea. > What is a competent search engine? Google seems to be falling apart. It > could not find the sun in midday now. Well, try Google before complaining. :) Searching for "wordperfect linux" (without the quotes) on Google brings up a very informative FAQ, including links to download sites. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
