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To: Kashish King who wrote (9321)	6/14/2000 12:27:00 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9798

It's just not the case that all Microsoft products are inferior but they win marketshare anyway. That has not my experience. I currently have the latest version of Win98 SE, with all the most recent updates and patches, running Norton crash protection software and regularly run Norton Windoctor to properly configure my registry. (and I'm running a KD3 chip with 196Meg RAM to boot). But somehow, despite all of this, my operating system seldom fails to utterly lock up once a day, even to the point when Norton Crashguard appears on my screen, EVEN IT seizes up. After that, the only recourse is the double Ctl-Alt-Del (which always creates registry problems and lost chains of data that must be corrected). Now somehow I find it hard for you to claim that MSFT doesn't produce shtty software. And I find it even harder to believe that only good software will dominate the marketplace as that is utterly untrue. What you are truly representative of, IMO, is the belief that we just have to learn to live with daily crashes and lost data (shame on us for not auto-saving every 10 seconds). MSFT has left us with a legacy of 640K memory, EMA, HIMEM... etc, by constanting re-tweaking DOS to mimic a Mac GUI. MSFT has been doing the very same retweaking of DOS/Windows, that you claim CORL is doing with WP. In fact, one of the reasons that CORL products are so bloated is due exactly to their having to design them for the Windows O/S. (of course Micron and other memory producers love it!!... :0) Now we have a lot of people who would probably love to get involved in Linux for other reasons than desktop applications. However, they wish to continue using an Office package with an interface that is familar to them, until they are weaned off of Windows bloatware, and other applications become more prominent. This is where I think we all see CORL having a place.. as a Linux starter kit. I have an extra computer sitting around here and I'm even tempted to use the CORL package.... anything to migrate away from Windows where any application crash winds up forcing a reboot (and even more registry damage). Btw, since you seem to present yourself as the "sexual intellectual" (***ing know-it-all) regarding all things that link CORL to Linux, and have discussed StarOffice 5.1 before, maybe you can answer me these two questions: If StarOffice written completely in JAVA? If not, how is it able to be cross-platform compatible via 6 different O/S' without the use of those vile "emulation" features? I looked through Sun's info on Star Office and found the answer to none of these questions. (No, I didn't read all the "white papers") Regards, Ron

To: Kashish King who wrote (9321)	6/14/2000 1:16:00 PM
From: Daniel Chisholm	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9798

Novell lost the game 10 years ago and dumped the product on Corel for cheap. Ahem. You're wrong here, Rod. Corel paid $450M (I think) for it. I think they wrote off a fair sized chunk of it since then (something keeps twigging my memory that they had a second writedown too). However they are still making cash payments to Novell for it... Who do you suppose got the better side of that transaction? - Daniel

To: Kashish King who wrote (9321)	6/14/2000 5:12:00 PM
From: Lady Lurksalot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9798

Rod, you should recheck your dates. In 1990, WordPerfect was still WordPerfect, a privately held company which (deservedly) owned the lion's share of the wordprocessing market. It was still the wordprocessor of choice when purchased by Novell many years later. Quatro Pro and Paradox were owned by Borland until even more recently. WordPerfect's first iteration for Windows was indeed a disaster, but the reason for this would best be put directly at Microsoft's door and the magical, mystical patches it wrote to the OS. Hint: DOS (or Windows) isn't done until (fill in the blank) won't run . . .