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Dropping Linux Helped Restore Corel Profitability
basotl writes "Newsforge is reporting that Corel attributes part of its financial comeback to dropping Corel Linux and its Linux office suite. Though they are not currently offering products for Linux, they are interested in prospect in the future." From the article: "Looking back, Brown describes the decision to drop Corel Linux as 'a successful strategy for Corel and an early step toward the refocusing of our business. At the time we knew that Corel's core focus was moving away from the operating system to concentrate more on our application offerings, and this would almost certainly have an impact on the level of service we could afford to customers and users of Corel Linux.' Nor, as a company struggling to regain profitability, was Corel inclined to try to develop the GNU/Linux market by continuing to support WordPerfect for Linux."
We hold these as self-evident truths:
You can't get blood out of a turnip, and you can't get money out of a penquin lover.
The only reason for loving penquins is if you have expensive hardware.
How many of you remember the OS/2 supporter/hard a hard on for Microsoft Nick Pertely over at infoworld?
How many of you remember his review of Wordperfect for Linux?
The review where he tells the readers about how HE cheated the registration system so you didn't have to buy the product?
Why would a developer WANT to try selling into a market where the users expect $0 AND one very public user was saying 'this is how to get a working wordprocessor for $0'?
As far as I have seen, the "Free" software and OSS movements are almost completely composed of people who want to tell the world how to use their computers, while claiming that proprietary software forces people into doing things as they are told. Hypocrisy, penis envy and theft are the driving forces of the "Free" software world.
Check out my foes list to see who is so retarded that they can't use the signature line!!!