RE: [SLUG] Cancell My Visit To The WP Office 2000 Pres.

["Aravind Naidu" <aravind.naidu@nospam.software-assoc.com>]

My response is ... "Good on them".

At least there is more competition on the office productivity front for
Linux. At the end of the day, I really don't care how they do it as long as
it is functional, stable and gives users an alternative to M$.

If you look at the history of these beasts, they have gone thro DOS, Win
3.1x and Win32 based API development and there is a lot of baggage they have
and it will be a huge task to move all of them to native posix/toolkit
calls.
If they can get away by improving winelib and doing it, it is just going to
benefit a lot more of the community. All said and done, the installed base
of Windows s/w is huge!! If some of that s/w comes on to a more stabler OS
then ....

-- Aravind


> >
> > On 30 Mar, Terry Collins scribbled:
> > ->
> > ->
> http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-2000-03/lw-03-vcontrol_3.html?3-28
> > ->
> > ->  This article says that we are NOT getting a Linux version, but a
> > ->  windows version that runs under Wine.
> >
> > that's precisely what corel has been doing - fixing wine
>
> My response is still "Oh Dear" I remain to be convinved that the
> leopard has changed its spots and can introduce a new version with out
> introducing a whole host of new errors as Corel usually does.
>
> Someone has said in defence of WP for Linux that Corel didn't program
> it. Bit hard to tell the difference really.
>

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