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To: Picanoc who wrote (9022)	5/13/2000 8:23:00 AM
From: A. Reader	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9798

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To: Picanoc who wrote (9022)	5/13/2000 1:19:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Respond to of 9798

Ian, Corel is a tiny little company with falling revenues and no real technology of their own: they borrowed a copy of Linux and acquired a dying office bloatware package from Novell. Granted, the drawing package was brought along by Corel but that was back in the '80s. Where does this idea come from that they are some how big players in anything? This make-believe we are really a big company game has been going on for at least ten years. It's part of the fictional facade that ends up driving his comments to the press. Not to ignore the long history of other claims, but have you heard anything about the inked Linux deals with Toshiba and Compaq that Cowpland told the press about last year? How about the 25 languages they would soon be releasing it in? This is why they have no credibility because this is the pattern they engage in continually, year after year. Linux is free. Companies that re-package Linux are a dime a dozen and with few exceptions, of no value. Red Hat really does add tremendous value to Linux. Corel takes value away in my opinion: they borrowed an existing distribution, deleted a boatload of features and then added a few of their own. The idea was to create some sort of lighter desktop version, but that market is already bloated. Corel is engaged in facade building: the imaginary part of the company continues to grow in leaps and bounds while the real part continues to wither away.