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."

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Commercial software is needed in Linux

[aitan]

People needs to realize that Linux zealots are really dangerous, whenever a company tries to release something for linux they cry out loud "where's the source?", "but the OS project X already (tries to) do that", "it isn't free (as in beer and speech)" etc... so instead of just judging the product by its qualities against the other products available in Linux they judge them by other ideas, get bad reviews and the company doesn't find a reason to release a new improved version because they don't get the revenue that could justify keeping that product line.

Go zealots, go!
You will be able to make sure that no company is interested to port their programs to Linux and so the people won't find in Linux the programs that really do (and don't pretend) the things that they need, so they will keep on using their current OS.