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To: hdl who wrote (9320)	6/14/2000 11:43:00 AM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 9798

"Can corl win a suit against msft for illegally squashing wordperfect?" No, Microsoft Word took advantage of Windows 3.0 in 1990 while Novell stumbled around in the dark. Word Perfect a horribly designed application that was glued together in assembly language and virtually unmaintainable. When they released the Windows version it was a dismal flop. Novell lost the game 10 years ago and dumped the product on Corel for cheap. Corel has basically tweaked the front end, but it's still based on the same underlying morass. I would venture to say it's mostly 16 bit code, too. This idea that Novell sold a product superior to Word to Corel is hogwash spewed up by, you guessed it, Corel and Corel investors. In fact, their office "suite" is a pile of hand-me-downs with the front-ends hacked up to look similar. Corel has no case insofar as "illegal" squashing is concerned. It's just not the case that all Microsoft products are inferior but they win marketshare anyway. That's the sort of bunk Corel investors love to float.