They were never anything more than the Anything-But-Microsoft crowd's champion.
No, that's not true. WordPerfect had its followers (I know), and I guess so did Quattro. None of those cared about the rest of the "office package", and Corel didn't do much to keep the apps up-to-date, so it had to go down. But it was never a pure "anti-microsoft" thingy.
Corel isn't a "large competitor". Corel's products are dead, its current market cap. is $270M - petty cash for Microsoft. Hey, even VA Linux has 8 times that.
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No, that's not true. WordPerfect had its followers (I know), and I guess so did Quattro. None of those cared about the rest of the "office package", and Corel didn't do much to keep the apps up-to-date, so it had to go down. But it was never a pure "anti-microsoft" thingy.
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Another parallel to Linux and its Fuhrer, er, leader...
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