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To: Kashish King who wrote (9112)	5/19/2000 10:42:00 AM
From: zax	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9798

Debian is a free distribution of Linux that Corel uses because they don't have their own -- dozens of companies do have their own legitimate Linux distributions What exactly would you call a company's own legitimate Linux distribution? As far as I know Corel has contributed more to Debian than any other company. If you can, why don't you name a dozen of the "dozens" of legitimate linux distributions you speak of, and then carefully explain for us what it is that makes one "legitimate" and another not? Next, please pray tell why you call Wine (which stands for) W<ine>I<s>N<ot an>E<mulator>, an emulator? Perhaps you should read this, Rod... "Corel's Contributions to the Wine Project" - linuxtoday.com Lastly, if possible without being too self referential, could you define what "lying sack of sh-t" is? I don't think ignorance applies anymore. ... realize that if you can't make it on Windows (which 90% of business have right now) after 10 years and ultra-low pricing, then there is something more fundamentally wrong. I hate to tell you this, but it's not the case that everybody is just stupid and buying inferior products for more money You should try not to be so hard on Inprise. I realize their failure of a second rate C compiler and buggy, and also-ran design environments like Delphi were clearly inferior to Microsoft products and didn't get squat market share compared to MS VC or MS VB but I don't think this means there is something fundamentally wrong. Nevermind. Perhaps you are right on this one.

To: Kashish King who wrote (9112)	5/19/2000 12:26:00 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9798

Rod, I'm going to put out a balloon here and make a SWAG speculation about CORL's future. If we all remember when APPL was on the ropes and MSFT came in an injected $150 million into them as a means of lessening the anti-trust perspective the market has about Mr. Softie. Well, APPL is a direct competitor to the MSFT platform and it really didn't make much sense to all of us why there would support their competition. Now what if MSFT, with BILLIONS in cash looking for an investment opportunity opts to invest in CORL? Not only would it look good from MSFT, helping out the competition, but would it not also make CORL's 32 bit Linux emulation experience available to MSFT should the worst happen and that company be split up? If MSFT is split up (and I think more of us believe eventually it will be), they will require the ability to port all of their applications to other platforms, such as Linux. Given that CORL probably only needs a couple of hundred million to tide it by until Linux evolves, it could be a good conservative bet for Mr. Softie. It certainly would avoid another potentially embarrassing example of how MSFT's monopoly control of Windows has caused the ruin of another competitor (although those who have followed CORL for so long know that Cowpland is the real culprit... :0). Btw, be sure to give me the appropriate kudos should this speculation come to fruition. Regards, Ron