__/ [ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] on Sunday 08 April 2007 00:05 \__
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> ed wrote:
>> does anyone know what's happened to the linux port of wordperfect? i
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> Microsoft Faces New Antitrust Probe Over Corel Deal
>
> Microsoft Corp. confirmed yesterday that the Justice Department's
> antitrust team is once again examining the company, this time zeroing
> in on Microsoft's investment in Corel Corp., a Canadian software firm.
>
> Government lawyers want to know more about a deal in which Microsoft
> gave Corel, perhaps best known for its WordPerfect program, $135
> million in exchange for 24 million shares of Corel stock last October.
>
> After the investment, Corel announced it would retreat from developing
> software designed to run on the Linux operating system, which competes
> with Microsoft's Windows operating system. Linux is favored by some in
> the high-tech industry because it opens up a blueprint of its code to
> the public, in an "open source" model.
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> End quote
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A5576-2001Feb14¬Found=true
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> Openoffice 2.0 is supposed to be able to read Wordperfect files (I
> think this is right), and convert them to other formats. Don't know
> about how well it works (macros, tables, etc). Also Sun's Staroffice
> handles wp files, maybe better than oo, don't know for sure, but Star
> office costs about $70 and runs on Linux.
Microsoft intends to do to Novell just what it did to Corel. We've covered
this with a bunch of links in the past and there are some more items that go
back and refer to that deal (can explore with the search bar ;-) ).
http://boycottnovell.com/2006/11/30/corel-linux-odf/
http://boycottnovell.com/index.php?s=corel
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/10/16/corel.linux.on.ms.idg/index.html
"LinuxWorld: With the recent investment by Microsoft (in Corel), many
people in the Linux community are concerned about your various Linux
projects getting derailed. What effect will there be on your Linux
ambitions?
Rene Schmidt: Essentially, with Linux, we are very committed to it. And
with Microsoft is not anti-Linux or anything. It is really about .Net. It is
really about the Web... [Linux is] not really any different than any other
platform, whether it is a Macintosh platform or a Windows platform that
provides services through the application. So from our point of view it is
not something that hampers what we are doing on Linux. In fact, it provides
new opportunities in Linux.
LinuxWorld So your next release of Corel Linux will come out on schedule
and as planned?
Rene Schmidt: Yes. We are working on a server edition and we are also
working on an enhanced version of the desktop and the server combined
together to provide enterprise solutions. They are slated for next year."
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