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To: BrownBag who wrote (9033)5/14/2000 5:31:00 PM
From: Leo Mitkievicz  Read Replies (1) of 9798
 
Hello Brown Bag,

So many times Rod has raved and ranted about 80's bloatware legacy DOS products being at the core of the current WordPerfect release, that his view has come to be accepted almost as fact on the thread. Now I seem to recall that (about the time of WP 7.0) Corel claimed the exact opposite and was allowed to write down the remainder it's investment. I forget all the details, but it involved the differences between US and Canadian GAAP and was much tougher for them to justify than for a US company.

On the surface there is little resemblance between Novell's Suite and 9.0 (or even 7.0). In your estimation, how much original code acquired from Novell remains in today's product?

BTW thanks for your take on Linux and the desktop. Much appreciated.

Regards,

Leo
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