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To: mappingworld who wrote (8346)	12/24/1999 10:40:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9798

No, I have actually stayed away from comments about their lifestyle because that's their business. I see the shallow insecurity of an attention-starved childhood. I know there are books on what drives the sort of elvis-like garishness and tackiness we see in the couple, but it's not my field. Apparently they've convinced themselves that jealousy is at the root of criticism, another clinical response according to the experts. Anyway, you've dragged an opinion out of me on that score, but like I said it's their business. It is relevant to me that they behave as though they were in a large successful company versus a piddly little company boxing up a couple million dollars with of '80s bloatware and stuffing retail channels with it once a year. So go ahead and invest in the empty rhetoric but be forewarned that they've done nothing but burn people with loud rhetoric followed by no results. Corel is just a follower of bandwagons that are already full when they get there. Somehow they manage to talk up a storm on Java, Linux or whatever, while watching hundreds of other companies leave them in the dust behind the wagon. I think it's because they wait until it's too late; they wait until the technology hits the mainstream press then start acting like they've been with it all along. So the public gets the idea they have some sort of opportunity when all they have is a bunch of idle chatter.

To: mappingworld who wrote (8346)	12/26/1999 2:07:00 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 9798

Olga, As to timing and making money on corl, if you don't believe in the investment value of the underlying stock then timing is just another roulette wheel. As to why do I post here. Well the first thing I say at watman.com is. "Now I don't get paid to do this and I do it as the exercise of writing it down helps me think more clearly. However I'm a ramblin kinda a thinka and as I have time I diverge ramble and sometimes converge ramble. So if this help good. If not it's worth what it cost ya." I make my living by investing in primarily Linux stocks. Currently I have only two investment grade Linux stocks, aplx and sgi. Now there was a time several month's ago when I thought that corl might be almost an Linux investment stock. But alas to me it is not. So I track this thread as corl is a Linux stock with several others. This is because every so often posters put up some gem of information that helps me keep current. I also like to find rational opposing opinion or supportive opinion, this keeps me thinking. For example, Mr Rod has made several rational arguments that further convince me that corl is currently just another Linux flash in the pan stock. I also like the really stupid posts as they inspire my confidence that I will continue to take more of other people money than I give. No some my take the previous as arogance buy I live and die finacially by brutal truth. So to me it's not wasting my time but learning and having fun. I'm just a little boy who never grew up. Now Olga you use the term bashing, hmmmm .... your lack of any rational discussion as to why the opinions I express are out to lunch would lead me to the opinion that Olga is Tom Watson bashing. Now I think I have used(bashed) the word more correctlyer. :-) Tom Watson tosiwmee

To: mappingworld who wrote (8346)	12/26/1999 6:33:00 PM
From: eder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9798

>>Let's not forget that in Canadian funds the low was something like 2 or 3 dollars and the highs were $ 64 (approx 2000%). So how ever much people bitch and moan about Dr C and his goldbreasted plate wife Marlen and his life style and his this and that, blah blah blah (lots of jealously going on as far as I am concerned from a repressed investing middle class as far as I am concerned), fortunes could and have been made going long and short on this stock many times over.<< No kiddin.I finally made up for all my losses from the Bre-X blowup. >> I should say I am currently not in COR (but have been) but I am interested in the dynamics of this thread. Why on earth is Thomas Watson, an Applix touter and Corel basher, wasting any time on this thread? It doesn't appear he really wants to advance any debate on anything. <<< I dont know why anyone so opposed to Corel would waste their time with this thread unless they intend to own in the near future.I use Corel products and think WP is better than MS and that Star is not in the same league.But thats just my opinion...(and about 20 million other users...lol).I'll be buying again...but not at these prices...$12 CAN would be a safe bet.