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Technology Stocks : Corel Corp. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Eveline Bernard who wrote (8504)	1/12/2000 7:18:00 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9798

Eveline, I've used Linux a long time. I consider that this statement is very misleading. "To be accepted as a desktop operating system, Linux must have a variety of commercial applications for users to choose from." What makes this quote so totally off the mark is the word commercial. Delete commercial and the statement becomes more true. but,,,,, End users want a set of application services or functions that allow them use an interactive device to accomplish whatever. The whatever spans pure commercial to fun. End users don't care a wit in general about, or even if there is an OS. The Linux OS can have layers the make it completely invisible to the end user. This becomes more difficult as the flexibility of requirements or desired application becomes bigger. So a set of compromises is made. cobt built a company on invisible Linux OS. But ya might not find and games that play on the cobt control panel. Go ahead somebody make me a liar.:-) To me in general the strategic decisions made by Corel in their approach to the general Linux solution box lean to increasing complexity and decreasing flexibility. I see this as a Corel competitive disadvantage in the Open Source meritocracy. Tom Watson tosiwmee