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To: Peter H. Mack who wrote (8092)	12/15/1999 2:43:00 PM
From: Ellen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9798

CFO to resign.

To: Peter H. Mack who wrote (8092)	12/15/1999 3:34:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 9798

Obviously you dont appreciate the other software that corel is including.. Well, I agree with that. I don't appreciate bloated '80s software that Corel picked up from Novel in a panic sale. There's something about continually hacking on a codebase for 15 years that was originally developed by DOS hackers that doesn't give me the warm and fuzzies. It's just more bloatware with an extra helping of bugs. Why should they give Word Perfect away as well? are you really running any linux system now? They might want to consider giving it away because that's almost what they do now. Do they even get a nickel a copy with these computer bundle deals? Furthermore, you might have heard of a little SVC called Sun Microsystems? They give away a superior offer an office product that runs on Windows and most Unices, including Linux. As for the last part of your question, it's a bit like asking whether I'm really running Windows '98. Not only am I running Linux I have been helping others install Linux on legacy machines. Having a background in UNIX software development, it's not that surprising. Moreover, Linux is not the first free OS based on UNIX and I used Minux in a 1987 operating systems class: A pedagogical version of UNIX, complete with source. Look, Corel has finally caught up to the bandwagon and now they're jumping on and madly waving their arms. We have the master clown Cowpland out on the stump making statements to the effect that "Redhat will take the server market and we'll take the desktop market." Ah... not quite. Not only do they have the least well-known, least popular and by most accounts most buggy distribution, Redhat and StarOffice are most certainly going after the desktop with KDE and/or Gnome GUI layers. What Cowpland told me with those statements was that he was neither serious nor informed nor sincere. If he was making it up as he went along then at least we have an explanation for his hysterically funny comments. Yeah, and they will take the Office Product market for Java software and of course dominate in the Net PC arena. Anyone 'member that crap? Kinda brings back memories. It's deja vu all over again 'septin this time he's got the law breathin' down his neck. The latter part is much to do about nothing, if you ask him, and he's planning on skating. Personally I think he probably will or maybe get a brutal finger wagging.