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To: Kashish King who wrote (5072)	4/8/1998 5:05:00 PM
From: Vanni Resta	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9798

Actress Hedy Lamarr is FOCUSING ON THE SUIT!!! Hahahaha! TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's Corel Corp. said Wednesday it is fighting a lawsuit filed by former movie star Hedy Lamarr which alleges the software concern profited by using her image on one of its products. Money-losing Corel, already facing at least three other unrelated lawsuits, believes that the Ottawa-based firm did not agree with any claims made by Lamarr, said spokeswoman Nicole Sanford... Does this classify as "kicking a dog when it is down?" Also, note the prominence of the phrase "money losing" in the Reuters story. Happy Investing! Vanni

To: Kashish King who wrote (5072)	4/9/1998 10:04:00 AM
From: Mr Frisky	Respond to of 9798

SYCOPHANT!!! BUTT-KISSING COREL APOLOGIST!!!!!! All I can think of is, it must take one to know what one is. I am neither. I hope you are in therapy, it sounds like you are on your way over the deep-end if not already there. Maybe you and Dr Cowpland can share a room and work out your personal problems together. It appears you and Dr Cowpland should be in the totally mad-genius ward.

To: Kashish King who wrote (5072)	4/9/1998 12:41:00 PM
From: Dave Berehowsky	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9798

1) They haven't demonstrated the ability to develop software of their own making in the last several years and that's especially true of object-oriented software (read: modern). Corel software is reasonably decent. The software shipped by Rational Software (supposedly OO gods) isn't much to brag about either. They have a severely flawed development process and they don't have a core asset of reusable building blocks. That approach was evident in their childish attempt to build a Java-based office pack. That failed attempt also demonstrated their abject incompetence in terms of software analysis and design. How bad? Since they punted completely we'll never know. Possibly, otoh it wouldn't have been the first time engineers were forced to work on something that made no sense. What is Oracle's excuse for Hat Trick? We shouldn't be so quick to associate Corel's financial woes with unskilled engineers. Microsoft was (still is?) a heavy recruiter at the University of Waterloo in Ontario for software engineers. I don't believe Bill Gates is unhappy about how his canadian warmed over dos hackers helped make him filthy rich. Also, the java god, James Gosling, is a canadian.