On Friday 25 August 2006 20:32, Mike McMullin wrote:
On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 11:57 -0400, suse@rio.vg wrote:
PerfectReign wrote:
Corel, on the other hand, doesn't feel it appropriate...
"Response (Maria) - 08/25/2006 08:07 AM Hi Mr K.,
Thank you for contacting Technical Services. There is no version of CorelDRAW available for Linux at the moment. Corel’s market data indicates that more than 95 per cent of CorelDRAW customers are using the Windows® platform. As a result, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12 and X3 are available for Windows only."
Wait... let me get this straight... CorelDRAW only runs on Windows, and ONLY 95 percent of their customers are running Windows?! Do the other 5% just buy CorelDRAW without the ability to run it?
(Nevermind the absurdity of using current customer base to determine whether porting is viable)
Does anyone see the absurd catch-22 situation here? Until a significant number of people run Corel-DRAW on a non-supported OS Corel won't make a version for that OS. =========
Isn't Corel on the downside of going out of business already? Why even worry about them or their programs? Linux has comparable programs now, Inkscape, Krita, Gimp and others with some costing a bit of money. Sure CorelDraw is/was good, but why bother? regards, Lee