On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Samy Elashmawy wrote:
Mean spireted , whos being mean spirited. some may just be a bit vocal and passionat about it , but I do think its a resonable and valis issue.
Let's review this and see if there is a reasonable and valid issue:
-----Original Message----- From: Fred A. Miller [mailto:fm@cupserv.org]
This has nothing to do with SuSE, directly, however, I think it's important that everyone here knows what Corel is "up to."
Their soon-to-be-released Office 20000 Suite is NOT a native Linux Suite, and in fact, the code was NOT ported to Linux. It's a modified 'Bloze version (all versions now have common code) that runs under Wine, which is shipped WITH the Suite. Now, for some this is fine...not a problem. I guess for me, I object to Corel's giving all this "lip service" to supporting Linux, and producing a LINUX VERSION of it's office suite, then having to read a review of the product to find out that it's NOT Linux code at all. I guess is an issue of honesty, if nothing else.
Here, Fred Miller declares: "I object to Corel's giving all this "lip service" to supporting Linux, and producing a LINUX VERSION of it's office suite, then having to read a review of the product to find out that it's NOT Linux code at all. I guess is an issue of honesty..." If Fred had bothered to learn something about Corel's office suite project when it was first announced over one year ago and if he had followed the information provided by Corel during its development, he would already know about how Corel was using WINE to develop it and would not be finding this out from a review of the product. But Fred does not bother to inform himself or learn what the truth is. Instead, he loudly accuses Corel of dishonesty. Instead of being accused by the grossly ignorant, Corel deserves to be praised for their courageous commitment to the Linux platform and their many contributions to the open-source movement. Dwight -- Dwight Johnson dwj@aaronsrod.com -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/