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Gateway To Use Corel Over MS For Office Suite

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the first-door-to-your-left dept.

djellusion writes "Dealing yet another blow to Microsoft, Gateway has announced that it will be using Corels Wordperfect office suite instead of Microsoft Office. I can only see this as a good thing because friendly competition creates drive for better(less clippy) products. Can I order my system with no office suite please?"

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  1. Jennifer! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Jennifer, I am sorry.

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  5. Linus is not author of Linux! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Linus Torvalds wasnt the one who wrote most of the Linux kernel. Instead it was his little brother Harken Torvalds. Linus always used to oppress and exploit him. He forced Harken by violence to write the kernel. Linus himself did contribute very little, and not the parts of best quality. Most of the time he just sat aside, slept, got drunk, and occasionally mistreated Harken. As a programmer, Linus is untalented and has poor skills. He forced Harken to publish his work under Linusname, and didnt allow him to get any credit for his own work.

    It even got worse, when Linus started his job at Transmeta. Since he was lacking the competence for this, he forced Harken to do most of his work. Needless to say, that Linus took all the payment from Transmeta for himself, while Harken had to live from water and bread.

    This exploitative relationship went on until the 2.4.0 kernel was released. At this time Harken finally made it to escape from Linus apartment, where he had to live almost like a prisoner. So Linux finally had to take over the burden of maintainership himself. We all know the outcome: lacking the competence for such a complex task, the release history became a nightmare, until Mrcelo Tosati took over.

    We should give Harken the merit that he deserves. He is a brilliant programmer, almost a genius, and the free software community owes him a lot.

  6. Wanna play "Marketing bingo"? by Dog+and+Pony · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    "This alliance enables Corel to introduce a whole new group of customers to the unique benefits of our productivity solutions," Steve Houck, Corel's executive vice president of strategic relations, said in a statement.

    As much fun as this is, don't you just hate people that talk like that and on top of that, seems to mean it?