On Saturday 05 July 2003 09:47, illustre wrote:
any reason corel offers a demo word perfect for windows but not for linux
'cos they're a bunch of morons. They dangled a Linux version of WP a couple of years ago, took loads of people's money (including mine) then refused to listen when everyone screamed "it doesn't work!". When the screaming got too loud they dropped the product completely, leaving everyone who'd bought it high and dry.
I used to have a lot of sympathy for Corel, but not any more. The sooner they go bust the better. I switched my Windows word processing platform from Wordperfect back to Microsoft Word, I was that disgusted.
/me steps off of soapbox :o)
That's what happen when the Antitrust law is not applied and when a monopolistic company decides to change their O.S. without giving the characteristics of the new O.S. to the other companies that use this O.S. as platform for their application. WordPerfect was the leading word-processor developer but was surprised when M$ went from MS-Dos to Windows-3.1 without warning the creators of softwares. WordPerfect did not have enough time to develop the Windows version of his Word-processor and the first version was a catastrophe and that's why almost everybody dropped WordPerfect for Word and the W.. people are now working with an obsolete Word-processor. I hope OpenOffice will change the process. The same happened with Quatro, Foxbase, etc ... Corel which bought WordPerfect made a good choice of trying Linux as platform for his application but it was to early because there was not enough people using Linux as DeskTop. The other error was to use Wine. Sun (and Netscape) had a better idea of giving his Word-processor application to the OpenSource community. Personaly I typed many documents on WordPerfect when I was still addicted to M$$ (the last Windown version worked very well). I stopped using Word-processors when I had to use the junk called Word at work. I use now text editors like Emacs or Vim, it is enough for 90% of the work. Happy to learn though that OpenOffice will allow us to read WP files. -- Alain Barthélemy cassandre@bartydeux.be http://www.bartydeux.be Linux User #315631