Re: Can Linux beat XP in homes yet or NOT?

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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
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