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

[Terry Collins <terryc@nospam.woa.com.au>]

Aravind Naidu wrote:

...snip...

> it is functional, stable and gives users an alternative to M$.

...snip....

> of Windows s/w is huge!! If some of that s/w comes on to a more stabler OS
> then ....

That is the benefit and if Corel can pull it off, then it will
certainly be a big plus, but if their code follows past practise, they
won't.


> 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.

As someone said on the forum, (well not quite in these words), they
have now put the family jewels in a vice controlled by MS (win32 api).
Even IBM pulled out of that game.

I'm interested in a package that is going to be around for years, not
the latest flavour of the month, which is where Linux seems to be
heading . I've got documents on floppies that are 10 years old and
similarly I'm going to need to know that current documents will be
accessable in 10 years time for reprinting. Not locked into a format
accessable only by an application that relies on a build composed of
various old versions of software that are no longer around. If Corel
looses, this is what may happen.



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