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Corel Looking To Sell Linux Operations?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the the-evergoing-intrigue-of-corel dept.

PySloth wrote to us with a link to InformationWeek that speculates about what Corel might be doing differently soon. One of the possibilities is the sale of their Linux operations, which would be odd concerning the .NET portion of their deal with Microsoft.

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  1. Re:Why Corel is right to sell out by MartinG · · Score: 5

    > And no easy way of doing things.

    Wow. You've hit the nail right on the head there. Most people when they complain about Linux simply give vague complaints and inaccurate statements. You however manage to get the message across perfectly with your insightful, succinct analysis of the problem.

    Only yesterday, I was trying to use linux to do things and it was really hard. I phoned my support line and said "I can't seem to do things with Linux"

    "We get that complaint all the time" they said. Better off with windows I say. Well, okay it's not as stable as Linux, but what good is enterprise class stability in an OS that cant even "do things" ?

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  2. The market just doesn't exist yet by update() · · Score: 5
    The Linux world has a collective delusion that if we just keep repeating that there's a large market for commercial desktop applications, it will somehow magically become true. Meanwhile, CmdrTaco is booting into Windows to play Diablo and then wonders why software vendors Don't Get It.

    Unfortunately, the reality is that the impressive market share numbers are driven by servers, farms and Red Hat partitions that the owner means to get around to using some day. And the folks who are actually using Linux anywhere near full-time on the desktop have been conditioned to believe that paying for software is an unfair imposition on them. Yeah, there's a market for Linux productivity apps but it's nowhere near enough to keep a company like Corel going.