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To: Master (Hijacked) who wrote (8200)	12/17/1999 7:01:00 PM
From: Steve Johnston	Respond to of 9798

Learn to use your head, not your emotions, before you post. Franz is not insulting you, he is simply giving advice, albeit in a rather gruff tone. Regards.

To: Master (Hijacked) who wrote (8200)	12/20/1999 12:32:00 AM
From: Master (Hijacked)	Respond to of 9798

(Late Sunday evening, rather than counting sheep I'm counting posts) This guy must like DISCO music. He keeps reminiscing the 80's in most of his posts. And just like Disco music.... à la "Fly Robin Fly"....the same tune is repeated at nausea: Geeeeez get over it!!!!!!!!! ================= . - The company is shrink-wrapping '80s bloatware that failed make any money for the companies that originally developed and owned them. - The former is false and the latter is true. Corel has a sub-standard office product that was transported here from the middle '80s through lots of hands. - Gee, it looks like Mike bungled that WP on Linux opportunity of a lifetime! Well, to be fair that warmed-over 80's bloatware isn't going anywhere, no matter who's championing it. - They have that '80s graphics package and that office suite they bought from Novell which has little or no following anymore. - I don't appreciate bloated '80s software that Corel picked up from Novel in a panic sale. - They are nothing more than the losing end, well the losing ant parasite, of the 80s bloatware wars. - Sure, they did keep the Novell hand-me-down alive so we have to assume they are capable of doing some maintenance and support development work on 80s bloatware, but not much else. - Cowpland is just the CEO of a tiny software company selling software products that established a customer base in the 80's. - They give their legacy '80s products away for peanuts, what's new? - For those who think Microsoft's products are bloated and brittle, wait until you get a hold of Corel's washed-up '80s acquisitions. - Having failed to create a lightweight Java office product (because they had no idea what they were doing) these washed-up 80's DOS maintenance workers went back to the giant hairball that somebody else got working for them and they bought. . GUESS WHO IT IS