Gene Heskett wrote:
Or they have an attitude that makes running their app on any platform/version
of linux other than their own downright impossible. Remember Corel
WordPerfect-8? I have a copy here I paid $70 for way back when, which has
never been successfully installed and able to run on any x86 machine I've
ever stuck the cd in the drive of. I don't think WP8 would have a quarter to
call somebody that cares, but their installer will not install on anything
but a specific version of Corel linux.
Needless to say, after that experience with Corel, I haven't touched anything
else they ever did with MY credit card again. I must not have been alone
either, anybody else remember Corel?
I remember they were bought out by Microsoft and their Linux products
unsurprisingly died immediately thereafter:
http://www.forbes.com/2000/10/03/1003corel.htm
It is slightly surprising that Canada permitted such a blatantly
anticompetitive action to happen, but Corel was probably on its way to
bankruptcy anyway.
That I have to violently agree with. We, the users, and very occasionally
contributors to the FOSS scene, are sick up to our tonsils in suffering from
the efforts of the distro's to differentiate and prevent the intermarriage of
the various featuresets in order to do exactly what we shower hate and
discontent on M$ for doing, vendor lock-in.
Debian has never done that. But we hate them because they don't do
anything to differentiate their product or make it any easier to use.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
