Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3104 mails)

[JerryKreps@xxxxxxxxxx (Jerry and June Kreps)]

One name seems to have left out:
Avi Schwartz.
All I did was to assembly the instructions Gavreil and Ave gave me.
JLK

On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> I just finished installing wpo2k on my SuSE Linux 6.4 system.  It was rather
> painful.  Fortunately one Jerry Kreps had taken the time and made the effort to
> get this working a few weeks ago.  His posts of the solution were invaluable in
> setting this up.  Jerry, in turn, gave much credit to one Gavriel State for
> untangling this.  I came to this NG hoping to find out if there were bug fixes
> and the like for wpo2k.  This is one of the first messages I saw.
> 
> I must say, the spirit of this thread seem to be contrary to the spirit of
> GNU/Linux.  The pathological insensitivity of ranting about and condemning the
> hard work of programmers who have spent an entire year trying to do what no one
> else has done in the Linux world is just plain wrong.  The spirit of Linux is
> to help the programmer solve the problems rather than condemning him or her.
> 
> I strongly believe wine is a good thing for the computer industry.  I'm glad
> Corel has done this.  I have already hit a few snags in running wpo2k, but its
> my goal to report the problems and try to help resolve them.  I've been keeping
> an eye on wine for two years now.  It has come a long way.  It isn't "there"
> yet, but it's getting there.
> 
> I've seen one company shove their inferior products down the throat of the
> consumer since the early '90s.  One of the losers in this monopolistic bullying
> was WordPerfect.  Another was Borland.  In the last month I've purchased
> JBuilder Pro for win32-linux-solaris, and wpo2k for Linux.  I own both MS w2k
> and win98.  I prefer to work in a Linux environment.  Two of the greatest
> experiences I had with computers in the last month were when I clicked on the
> "classic" IDE color option in JBuilder, and when I clicked on "Reveal Codes" in
> WordPerfect.  These are the products that got me through my college degree, and
> I prefer them to MS alternatives.
> 
> Thanks Corel!!!!!
> 
> 
> Steve

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