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To: BP Ritchie who wrote (4844)	4/30/2000 2:36:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5102

So, shareholders who have Word Perfect use Microsoft Office to stay compatible. That's nice, except that you can import and export files to Word Perfect so I suspect it's a matter of choice that you have Microsoft Office. Word Perfect was easily knocked out by Word well before Microsoft's products were regarded as the solid. What you want us to believe is that with little money, a falling market share and ancient software, Word Perfect not only kept up with Word but surpassed it. You want us to believe that Microsoft tried but failed to create a better product; that Microsoft Office users are just stupid; that they like using worse products; that regardless of the numbers, what Corel buys from other companies is just magically better. You claim that the wordprocessor, spreadsheet and database aquired from totally different companies in totally different states of repair, were brought together and by God they are better than the coherent effort of Microsoft. Well, that's a steaming pant load. That's why you've lost your shirt on this investment: a failure to grasp reality and the ability to invent facts that don't exist. Let me tell you something, Corel doesn't develop software, they patch existing products to provide upgrades. You just don't get it, and neither do they. Corel has no record of innovation, they have a record of tinkering around with other people's stuff and mostly failing to deliver.