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[adrian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Adrian Burd)]

>>>>> "Derek" == Derek Fountain <fountai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

I've stayed out of this debate so far since I have strongly ambivalent
feeling about Corel. But....

    >> Ill jump in here , While I applaud Corel for making corel
    >> Office 2000 , and its phot shop app avialable on linux via wine
    >> , I would rather have a linux naative version. The fact that it
    >> uses wine/winelib is relevent in that if

    Derek> It *is* a Linux native version. Every single byte of the
    Derek> app and it's libraries was compiled on a Intel Linux
    Derek> machine using (I assume) gcc. It's not emulated, it's not
    Derek> relinked on the fly, it's not fudged in any way. 

Hmmm...in that case I misunderstood what Corel had done. It also makes
me rather more disappointed. I have installed Corel WPO2000 Deluxe
edition and it's given problems all over. Some of these (such as the
fonttastic font server apparently not getting on with xfsft) are of my
own doing, but many lay fairly and squarely at Corel's feet. These
include but are not limited to

 * Mistakes in the documentation that, when followed, cause
   segmentation violations.
 * Fonts not working and messing up the X server so that one has to
   re-boot. 
 * Corel support replying to less than 50% of requests. 

Some are just plain sloppy (such as the documentation), some are
related to the organization (such as the poor response from Corel
support) and some are programming problems. I've submitted bug reports
(though I had to do this on the various corel newsgroups because I was
unable to find an official e-mail address to report bugs
to). According to some of the people in the know who use the Corel
newsgroups, there are no plans for patches, bug fixes etc. from
Corel. 

So whilst I applaud their initial effort (and their work with WINE), I
believe they run the risk of shooting themselves in the foot and doing
considerable harm to the perception of Linux as a viable desktop OS.

Adrian


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