Either Corel is cutting back on trade shows or it decided PC Expo was not worth it. They picked Linux Tag 2000 in Germanyfor the world premiere of CorelDRAW 9 LINUX incl. Corel Photo-Paint LINUX(free download here).
They are also releasing the German version WordPerfect Office 2000 Linux.
Interesting timing as the German Minister of the Interior has reissued a report recommending that German Federal Depts use open source software.
This report was first released last March but was quickly pulled after preasure from Microsoft. A massive letter writing campagn has convinced the minister to rerelease it.
Maybe Corel sees more potential in the German market. The desktop has not exactly taken off in the US as yet.
The findings of fact clearly established that certain Microsoft business practices are illegal. The restrictions that were to come into effect in 90 days directly addressed these illegal practices. Now while Microsoft drags the appeal process out for the next two years, companies like Corel will continue to suffer. As others pointed out, in two years the restrictions may be moot. I would say that the judge should reinstate the business practice restrictions immediately. In this case it is literally true that Justice postponed is justice denied.
You really didn't answer my one question, which is where is WordPerfect's file format located on Corel's website?
As noted above, the WP file format is here.
I guess both Corel and Lotus are using monopolistic practices to...
Oh wait a minute, you really don't know what you're talking about do you?
Personally I've never liked Office, but I don't think my like or dislike for a product should influence this discusison. Unfortunately your dislike for a product has blinded you to the reality of the industry.
Hey man, wake up. If you have not noticed, Microsoft just went through a two year antitrust court case and lost. The findings of fact are now in the books forever. Any appeal might change the penalties but the fact is that Microsoft used illegal business practices to bone the consumers. Note that there are now 135 civil law suits pending against them.
Oh, and I don't know what difference restrictions will make. Even if they were to survive the appellate court.
Do you know that originally some of the states wanted the case to be about the way Microsoft used the bundling of Word with Excel to be the main focus of the case? Corel and Lotus have not sued yet but they would have a hell of a good case especially now that most of the work has been done in this trial.
When the restricitons come into play, other companies like Corel will have a chance to win contracts based on the merits of their product as the companies will not have to worry about Microsoft taking revenge against them.
The file format for WordPerfect has not changed since version 6 yet Microsoft Word cannot save to.wpd format. Why should they when they can use illegal monopolistic practices to control 95% of the office suite market? Word 97 will save to WordPerfect 5.x for Windows. Hmm thats funny. I thought the first WordPerfect for Windows was ver 6?
BTW, Corel has only 5% of the corporate market but has 30 % of the retail market. Customer satisfaction surveys consistently report that while more people use MS Word, they are not generally satisfied with it. WordPerfect users consistently report high satisfaction levels.
Well there are about 85 days to go until the restrictions kick in. We will see if Corel does better then when the playing field is leveled.
True it includes footnotes if you are counting the whole document but for legal briefs you do not count certain portions. In WordPerfect you can simply block off the main body and use the word count. In word you do not have the option to include footnotes when counting words in a selected block.
There is a reason why so many lawyers use WordPerfect instead of MS Word. Word does not do the things they need. For example, Word's word count does not include footnotes in the count. Since certain submissions to courts have a maximum word count which include footnotes, they have to have a clerk manually count the words to make sure it does not exceed the maximum length. Some courts refuse to accept briefs created in MS Word due to this problem.
Having different versions and revisions included in a file not only makes for a bloated file size but could also give the opposition insight that you do not want to give them.
There is one thing that WordPerfect does superbly is creat tables of authourities which word sucks at.
The DoJ just bought 55,000 seats of WordPerfect and even the ruling against MS was created in WordPerfect.
Corel does a pretty good job of converting doc files. In fact they have been certified by the American Bar Association as 100% MS Office compatable. They can do that since lawyers use mainly text documents. Conversion problems arise when you have complex documents with graphics, tables charts etc. Corel's conversion is not bad but still requires some minor editing. Lawyers love to receive files in doc format since they can go in and see the previous revisions of offers etc.
BTW remember when Office 97 came out and could not save to an Office 95.doc format? It actually saved to RTF but gave a.doc extension. Corel's WP could save to the real Office 95.doc which made it more MS compatable than MS was.
Perssonally I think MS is using its illegal monapolistic practices to make calls to secret windows APIs to give it an advantage.
The Director of NASA was profiled on a CNN show a couple weeks ago and stated that a person will be walking on Mars no earlier than 10 but no greater than 20 years from now.
That got me excited as I never thought I would see that in my lifetime.
Inprise really has not shot up since the end of the merger. Oh wait, the whole tech sector is still down. Maybe Corel was not the cause of their share price slide. Maybe their price rose before just on rumors of aquisition.
Skycars will be here "real soon now". Take your pick. If you have the bucks you can buy a City Hawk - flying car Looks like a star wars speeder. There is the Xantus and the Moller Skycar. It actually looks like a Jetsons car. Cool Popular Mechanics cover here.
Black boxes to assign blame? We already know what causes the majority of fatal accidents. We know that alchohol/drugs contribute to 60%- 80% of the accidents. That is why they drive recklessly. We don't need black boxes or video cameras to prove that.
Doesn't VM Ware pay big bucks to MS for a license to use the APIs? If MS has to release the APIs will the price of VM Ware go down to something reasonable? Will this hurt WINE?
We do not need advanced technology to save lives. We just have to have the political will to stand up to the auto companies and demand that the road slaughter stops.
How many years did it take to get even seat belts/safety glass in cars? After people started using them lives were saved. Princess Diana might be alive today if she had worn her seat belt. She was in a very expensive Mercedes with all the latest safety equipment. The only person to survive the crash was the bodyguard who was wearing his seat belt. What was the cause of the crash? A drunk driver in an overpowered car. BTW air bags did not help in this crash. They are expensive and have probably killed more kids and short people than would have been saved with seat belts alone.
It is ironic that if a plan or train crashes, there is a big investigation and whole fleets are grounded until the problem is fixed yet flying/rail are the two safest methods of travel. The auto companies on the other hand are allowed to produce vehicles that are inherently dangerous. This is shown about the number of auto fatalities that kill more people in a long weekend then all the air planes crashes in a year.
The auto companies could make a safe car but would anyone buy it? They would have to if there were stricter govt regulations. Right now the government pays lip service to safety.
Here are some simple solutions that would save 10,000 lives a year:
If the govt was serious about safety, they would not allow cars on the road that can do 150mph when the speed limit is 60mph.
Put real bumpers at a standard height on all vehicles.
Make breath analysers mandatary to start a car or at least on known impaired drivers.
Annual drivers test for anyone over 65.
The other best solution for reducing fatalities is divided highways. Expensive but saves head on collisions.
BTW If you want to see the real 'Jetsons Flying Car' check out the Moller Skycar.
The case was started by the Netscape issue but there have been a slew of companies put out of business by Microsoft's innovation. While WordPerfect is still around, the facility in Orem would still be open if the pending restrictions would have been in place 5 years ago. Corel has done a good job in keeping it alive but they just had to lay off 320 more staff to stay alive. In 88 days we will see if the restrictions result in a more level playing field.
Corel WPO for Linux comes with Fontastic font manager and supports all true type fonts.
WPO4L suports XML and SGML.
It offers true file portability.
WPO4L comes with a ton of clip art, sounds, pictures, videos etc.
Macros convert also
A MS Free computing environment is possible today with Corel Linux and WPO4L plus full MS Exchange/Outlook functionality with Bynari TradeExchange/clients.
OTTAWA, CANADA--Corel Corporation (NASDAQ: CORL, TSE: COR) is pleased to announce WordPerfect(r) Office 2000 Deluxe for Linux(r) has been placed on Winmag.com's prestigious WinList.
Each month editors at Winmag.com, an online Windows(r) publication, test and evaluate numerous hardware and software products. The best rise to the exclusive WinList. Products remain on the list as long as they lead their category. WordPerfect Office 2000 Deluxe for Linux placed first in the category of Software -- Business Suites.
"In Linux, Corel's Suite is the only game in town and, as such, is a genuinely great office suite," said Warren Ernst, in Winmag.com's June 1, 2000 review of Corel WordPerfect Office 2000 Deluxe for Linux. "It indeed brings Linux a step closer to a useful desktop operating system alternative in the modern office environment." Further in the review, Mr. Ernst went on to say, "This version of WordPerfect speaks 'Microsoft Office' fluently."
WordPerfect Office 2000 Deluxe for Linux packages WordPerfect(r) 9, Quattro(r) Pro 9, Paradox(r) 9, Corel(r) Presentations(tm) 9, Netscape(r) Communicator 4.7 along with 1000 True Type(r) fonts, 12,000 pieces of clipart, 200 stock photos and a copy of the Corel(r) LINUX(r) OS.
"I am thrilled a prestigious publication like Winmag.com has recognized the power and ease of use of WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux," said Derek J. Burney, executive vice-president of engineering and chief technology officer of Corel Corporation. "This is a strong endorsement of what we've been saying all along. Not only do our Linux products give consumers another choice, but they also offer the best of both worlds by providing a bridge between Windows and Linux."
WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux (Standard and Deluxe Editions) hit store shelves in April and already the Deluxe Edition is among the top five best-selling Linux products in the U.S. retail market, according to the April 2000 figures released by PC Data, a market research firm. According to these figures, WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux ranks 5th out of a total of 66 Linux products sold in the U.S. retail market, based on total revenue.
In addition, PC Data figures show Corel's share of the Linux market continued to rise in April. Corel had 22.6 per cent of the U.S. retail market share -- based on sales of Corel LINUX OS and WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux -- compared to 15.7 per cent in March. Corel is ranked second only to Red Hat(tm) when tracking the share of revenues from Linux sales in the U.S. retail market (PC Data Retail Software Report -- April 2000).
The question is do people have an alternative to Microsoft? The answer is a resounding yes! Once Microsoft cannot dictate terms to OEMs you will see more PCs come bundled with other suites. Then the people can decide with their wallets if they want to spend the extra $500 for MS Office. The authors of the articles said at the beginning that a business needed the file format compatibility and noone else could provide it. Much later they quoted the American Bar Association having certified Corel WP Office suite as being 100% compatible with Word/Excel.
In many ways Quatro Pro is superior to Excel. QP can have 1,000,000 rows per worksheet while Excel is a fraction of that. I can blocl off some numbers and get descriptive stats in QP with two mouse clicks. Excel well I still cant see how to do it. WordPerfect has real time previews and reveal codes. MS Word formats it the way it thinks it should look, not the way you want it.
The big selling points for Corel are features, compatibility and low cost. It is also available in Linux. I have been using it for months now and have had no problems. Lots of customer satisfaction surveys(including PC Mag) have shown that while more people use MS Office, they are not very satisfied with it while those who use Corel WPO are very satisified(including 1 million lawyers). Many lawyer offices are switching to Linux/WPO and are saving a ton of money by not having to upgrade older PCs and lower TCO.
So if you like using word keep using it but if you want a real alternative use Corel.
When you buy the Corel WP Office for Linux you not only get a full fledged office suite that reads/writes MS Word/Excel files but also a copy of Corel Linux(CLOS) and Bynari tradeserver. Bynari offers full compatibility with MS Exchange and Outlook. from www.bynari.com:
You may want to consider TradeServerTM as a Linux migration path from Microsoft ExchangeTM. TradeServer combines the full funtionality and inter-operability of Bynari's TradeclientTM, as well as Microsoft's OutlookTM client, using standards based non-proprietary protocols.
Features: TradeServer functionality includes the following:
Interoperability with Outlook 2000, and earlier versions of Outlook
A cost effective alternative to proprietary software solutions, resulting in a significant reduction of Total Cost of Ownersip (TCO).
Stability and robustness of the Linux OS for a scalable, reliable platform suited for stand alone and distributed deployment models.
Excellent scalability from stand alone installation to distributed deployments, with support for multiple databases, and one MILLION entries per database.
X based configuration and administration tools, as well as a web based administration option, allows for a variety of methods for deployment and management.
Features of TradeXCH E-Mail
Mime Support Message Digests Address Book (multiple)
Microsoft employees may be safer if they move to Canada.
Consider this story:
From today's wire service:
A young Canadian boy is being held in Miami today by a group of Canadian expatriates who refuse to let him be returned to his father in Canada.
The boy, one Ernie MacDougal, was visiting Disney World with his mother when she fell out of the ride on Splash Mountain. After what some say is a miraculous survival aided by members of the Miami Dolphins, he reached the end of the ride, where he was interviewed by Disney security. Asked repeatedly where he was from, he kept answering 'Saskatoon Saskatchewan'. Taking this as the babblings of delirium, the boy was turned over to Dr. Phil McCracken, the physician on duty at the park at that time.
As luck would have it, Dr. McCracken is a Canadian who had himself fled the tyranny of having the Canadian government tell him how to run his medical practice, and had come to the United States in hopes of having large publicly traded corporations tell him how to run his medical practice.
Recognizing that the boy was a fellow countryman, his family swept the boy away to their home in Miami and called the media to announce their intention to prevent the boy from being returned to a country where he could not be free to take a gun to school to defend himself against the other 6 year old kids with guns.
Other Canadian expatriates have formed a human shield around the house, linking arms and shouting 'Hell no, he won't go, eh'. The boy's father in Saskatoon has issued a public demand for his return, but as yet has shown no sign of willingness to travel to Miami. State department experts on Canada believe that he is not allowed to leave Canada until he manages to complete a multipage passport application in flawless French.
Ironically, the boy's mother survived her fall but was later found shot in the Disney parking lot, where muggers mistook her for a German tourist.
The sad things is that with NASA's budget cuts and other problems I am beginning to doubt I will see a manned mission to mars in my lifetime.
The Director of NASA was on CNN last week and was asked about Mars. He stated that "There will be a man on Mars in no less than 10 years and no greater than 20 years."
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They are also releasing the German version WordPerfect Office 2000 Linux.
Interesting timing as the German Minister of the Interior has reissued a report recommending that German Federal Depts use open source software.
This report was first released last March but was quickly pulled after preasure from Microsoft. A massive letter writing campagn has convinced the minister to rerelease it.
Maybe Corel sees more potential in the German market. The desktop has not exactly taken off in the US as yet.
Bitstream(TM) Font Navigator. Great font handling and an extensive printer library of drivers
Corel TEXTURE(TM) - realistic natural textures
CorelTRACE(TM) - bitmap-to-vector conversion
Corel CAPTURE(TM) - application window screen captures
Digimarc® Digital Watermarking Human Software Squizz!(TM) - distortion effects
25,000 high-quality clipart images** - 10,000 new to CorelDRAW 9
1,000 high-resolution photos
1,000 TrueType® and Type 1 fonts - 850 updated to include the Euro currency symbol
GIMP is good but does not have the features of Photo Paint 9.
As noted above, the WP file format is here.
I guess both Corel and Lotus are using monopolistic practices to...
Oh wait a minute, you really don't know what you're talking about do you?
Personally I've never liked Office, but I don't think my like or dislike for a product should influence this discusison. Unfortunately your dislike for a product has blinded you to the reality of the industry.
Hey man, wake up. If you have not noticed, Microsoft just went through a two year antitrust court case and lost. The findings of fact are now in the books forever. Any appeal might change the penalties but the fact is that Microsoft used illegal business practices to bone the consumers. Note that there are now 135 civil law suits pending against them.
Oh, and I don't know what difference restrictions will make. Even if they were to survive the appellate court.
Do you know that originally some of the states wanted the case to be about the way Microsoft used the bundling of Word with Excel to be the main focus of the case? Corel and Lotus have not sued yet but they would have a hell of a good case especially now that most of the work has been done in this trial.
When the restricitons come into play, other companies like Corel will have a chance to win contracts based on the merits of their product as the companies will not have to worry about Microsoft taking revenge against them.
BTW, Corel has only 5% of the corporate market but has 30 % of the retail market. Customer satisfaction surveys consistently report that while more people use MS Word, they are not generally satisfied with it. WordPerfect users consistently report high satisfaction levels.
Well there are about 85 days to go until the restrictions kick in. We will see if Corel does better then when the playing field is leveled.
True it includes footnotes if you are counting the whole document but for legal briefs you do not count certain portions. In WordPerfect you can simply block off the main body and use the word count. In word you do not have the option to include footnotes when counting words in a selected block.
Having different versions and revisions included in a file not only makes for a bloated file size but could also give the opposition insight that you do not want to give them.
There is one thing that WordPerfect does superbly is creat tables of authourities which word sucks at.
The DoJ just bought 55,000 seats of WordPerfect and even the ruling against MS was created in WordPerfect.
BTW remember when Office 97 came out and could not save to an Office 95 .doc format? It actually saved to RTF but gave a .doc extension. Corel's WP could save to the real Office 95 .doc which made it more MS compatable than MS was.
Perssonally I think MS is using its illegal monapolistic practices to make calls to secret windows APIs to give it an advantage.
That got me excited as I never thought I would see that in my lifetime.
Inprise really has not shot up since the end of the merger. Oh wait, the whole tech sector is still down. Maybe Corel was not the cause of their share price slide. Maybe their price rose before just on rumors of aquisition.
Skycars will be here "real soon now". Take your pick. If you have the bucks you can buy a City Hawk - flying car Looks like a star wars speeder. There is the Xantus and the Moller Skycar. It actually looks like a Jetsons car. Cool Popular Mechanics cover here.
Black boxes to assign blame? We already know what causes the majority of fatal accidents. We know that alchohol/drugs contribute to 60%- 80% of the accidents. That is why they drive recklessly. We don't need black boxes or video cameras to prove that.
ie change http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/index .html to
http://partners.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/ index.html or click here
We do not need advanced technology to save lives. We just have to have the political will to stand up to the auto companies and demand that the road slaughter stops.
How many years did it take to get even seat belts/safety glass in cars? After people started using them lives were saved. Princess Diana might be alive today if she had worn her seat belt. She was in a very expensive Mercedes with all the latest safety equipment. The only person to survive the crash was the bodyguard who was wearing his seat belt. What was the cause of the crash? A drunk driver in an overpowered car. BTW air bags did not help in this crash. They are expensive and have probably killed more kids and short people than would have been saved with seat belts alone.
It is ironic that if a plan or train crashes, there is a big investigation and whole fleets are grounded until the problem is fixed yet flying/rail are the two safest methods of travel. The auto companies on the other hand are allowed to produce vehicles that are inherently dangerous. This is shown about the number of auto fatalities that kill more people in a long weekend then all the air planes crashes in a year.
The auto companies could make a safe car but would anyone buy it? They would have to if there were stricter govt regulations. Right now the government pays lip service to safety.
Here are some simple solutions that would save 10,000 lives a year:
If the govt was serious about safety, they would not allow cars on the road that can do 150mph when the speed limit is 60mph.
Put real bumpers at a standard height on all vehicles.
Make breath analysers mandatary to start a car or at least on known impaired drivers.
Annual drivers test for anyone over 65.
The other best solution for reducing fatalities is divided highways. Expensive but saves head on collisions.
BTW If you want to see the real 'Jetsons Flying Car' check out the Moller Skycar.
WPO4L suports XML and SGML.
It offers true file portability.
WPO4L comes with a ton of clip art, sounds, pictures, videos etc.
Macros convert also
A MS Free computing environment is possible today with Corel Linux and WPO4L plus full MS Exchange/Outlook functionality with Bynari TradeExchange/clients.
Cheers,
OTTAWA, CANADA--Corel Corporation (NASDAQ: CORL, TSE: COR) is pleased to announce WordPerfect(r) Office 2000 Deluxe for Linux(r) has been placed on Winmag.com's prestigious WinList.
Each month editors at Winmag.com, an online Windows(r) publication, test and evaluate numerous hardware and software products. The best rise to the exclusive WinList. Products remain on the list as long as they lead their category. WordPerfect Office 2000 Deluxe for Linux placed first in the category of Software -- Business Suites.
"In Linux, Corel's Suite is the only game in town and, as such, is a genuinely great office suite," said Warren Ernst, in Winmag.com's June 1, 2000 review of Corel WordPerfect Office 2000 Deluxe for Linux. "It indeed brings Linux a step closer to a useful desktop operating system alternative in the modern office environment." Further in the review, Mr. Ernst went on to say, "This version of WordPerfect speaks 'Microsoft Office' fluently."
WordPerfect Office 2000 Deluxe for Linux packages WordPerfect(r) 9, Quattro(r) Pro 9, Paradox(r) 9, Corel(r) Presentations(tm) 9, Netscape(r) Communicator 4.7 along with 1000 True Type(r) fonts, 12,000 pieces of clipart, 200 stock photos and a copy of the Corel(r) LINUX(r) OS.
"I am thrilled a prestigious publication like Winmag.com has recognized the power and ease of use of WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux," said Derek J. Burney, executive vice-president of engineering and chief technology officer of Corel Corporation. "This is a strong endorsement of what we've been saying all along. Not only do our Linux products give consumers another choice, but they also offer the best of both worlds by providing a bridge between Windows and Linux."
WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux (Standard and Deluxe Editions) hit store shelves in April and already the Deluxe Edition is among the top five best-selling Linux products in the U.S. retail market, according to the April 2000 figures released by PC Data, a market research firm. According to these figures, WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux ranks 5th out of a total of 66 Linux products sold in the U.S. retail market, based on total revenue.
In addition, PC Data figures show Corel's share of the Linux market continued to rise in April. Corel had 22.6 per cent of the U.S. retail market share -- based on sales of Corel LINUX OS and WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux -- compared to 15.7 per cent in March. Corel is ranked second only to Red Hat(tm) when tracking the share of revenues from Linux sales in the U.S. retail market (PC Data Retail Software Report -- April 2000).
In many ways Quatro Pro is superior to Excel. QP can have 1,000,000 rows per worksheet while Excel is a fraction of that. I can blocl off some numbers and get descriptive stats in QP with two mouse clicks. Excel well I still cant see how to do it. WordPerfect has real time previews and reveal codes. MS Word formats it the way it thinks it should look, not the way you want it.
The big selling points for Corel are features, compatibility and low cost. It is also available in Linux. I have been using it for months now and have had no problems. Lots of customer satisfaction surveys(including PC Mag) have shown that while more people use MS Office, they are not very satisfied with it while those who use Corel WPO are very satisified(including 1 million lawyers). Many lawyer offices are switching to Linux/WPO and are saving a ton of money by not having to upgrade older PCs and lower TCO.
So if you like using word keep using it but if you want a real alternative use Corel.
You may want to consider TradeServerTM as a Linux migration path from Microsoft ExchangeTM. TradeServer combines the full funtionality and inter-operability of Bynari's TradeclientTM, as well as Microsoft's OutlookTM client, using standards based non-proprietary protocols.
Features: TradeServer functionality includes the following:
Interoperability with Outlook 2000, and earlier versions of Outlook
A cost effective alternative to proprietary software solutions, resulting in a significant reduction of Total Cost of Ownersip (TCO).
Stability and robustness of the Linux OS for a scalable, reliable platform suited for stand alone and distributed deployment models.
Excellent scalability from stand alone installation to distributed deployments, with support for multiple databases, and one MILLION entries per database.
X based configuration and administration tools, as well as a web based administration option, allows for a variety of methods for deployment and management.
Features of TradeXCH E-Mail
Mime Support Message Digests Address Book (multiple)
Calendar Scheduling Contact Management Task Lists
Multiple POP3 accounts SMTP LDAP Filtering Signature file
support Ray Traced Icons
Eliminates: Additional equipment for e-mail connectivity with Exchange. Per seat cost for Exchange server. Software cost
Corel and bynari make it possible to go Microsoft free.
Consider this story:
From today's wire service:
A young Canadian boy is being held in Miami today by a group of Canadian expatriates who refuse to let him be returned to his father in Canada.
The boy, one Ernie MacDougal, was visiting Disney World with his mother when she fell out of the ride on Splash Mountain. After what some say is a miraculous survival aided by members of the Miami Dolphins, he reached the end of the ride, where he was interviewed by Disney security. Asked repeatedly where he was from, he kept answering 'Saskatoon Saskatchewan'. Taking this as the babblings of delirium, the boy was turned over to Dr. Phil McCracken, the physician on duty at the park at that time.
As luck would have it, Dr. McCracken is a Canadian who had himself fled the tyranny of having the Canadian government tell him how to run his medical practice, and had come to the United States in hopes of having large publicly traded corporations tell him how to run his medical practice.
Recognizing that the boy was a fellow countryman, his family swept the boy away to their home in Miami and called the media to announce their intention to prevent the boy from being returned to a country where he could not be free to take a gun to school to defend himself against the other 6 year old kids with guns.
Other Canadian expatriates have formed a human shield around the house, linking arms and shouting 'Hell no, he won't go, eh'. The boy's father in Saskatoon has issued a public demand for his return, but as yet has shown no sign of willingness to travel to Miami. State department experts on Canada believe that he is not allowed to leave Canada until he manages to complete a multipage passport application in flawless French.
Ironically, the boy's mother survived her fall but was later found shot in the Disney parking lot, where muggers mistook her for a German tourist.
The Director of NASA was on CNN last week and was asked about Mars. He stated that "There will be a man on Mars in no less than 10 years and no greater than 20 years."