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To: BrownBag who wrote (9033)	5/14/2000 5:16:00 PM
From: JC Jaros	Respond to of 9798

Okay, well it's not special coding. The difference is the location of files. The .RPM package expects things to go into specific directories. Debian has a slightly different tree. That's the difference. It's nothing to do with the code. It's all about the directory tree. You know, taking the VisualAge codebase or any other program codebase from one nix to another (say, Linux, to Solaris) doesn't require that much tweaking. Taking a Linux program from one distro to another just requires changing the names of a few directories here and there (outside of the source code). No big deal. -JCJ

To: BrownBag who wrote (9033)	5/14/2000 5:31:00 PM
From: Leo Mitkievicz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9798

Hello Brown Bag, So many times Rod has raved and ranted about 80's bloatware legacy DOS products being at the core of the current WordPerfect release, that his view has come to be accepted almost as fact on the thread. Now I seem to recall that (about the time of WP 7.0) Corel claimed the exact opposite and was allowed to write down the remainder it's investment. I forget all the details, but it involved the differences between US and Canadian GAAP and was much tougher for them to justify than for a US company. On the surface there is little resemblance between Novell's Suite and 9.0 (or even 7.0). In your estimation, how much original code acquired from Novell remains in today's product? BTW thanks for your take on Linux and the desktop. Much appreciated. Regards, Leo