Fwd: [Contributors] Microsoft Windows Is Offically Broken
Matthew Miller
mattdm at mattdm.org
Sat Nov 26 04:29:03 UTC 2005
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 10:52:27PM -0500, Jim Cornette wrote:
> The concept was to load wordperfect under Linux. Also WordPerfect was
> working on a program that was able to run Microsoft applications under
> Linux. MicroSoft bought WordPerfect out and closed development on the
> project and stripped out the code WordPerfect developed for the feat.
This isn't quite accurate. Corel made use of the open-source Wine project to
port their code to Linux (using it in its "Wine-is-not-an-emulator" role).
They did make contributions back to the open source project, but I'm not
sure how extensive they were.
> I was going to buy it when it came out. I believe there was a version of
> WordPerfect Linux that actually made it to the stores. I do not know
It was a free download; I'm not sure if it was actually also available in
physical stores for money.
> whatever happened to the information on the web.
> I'll try WordPerfect Linux to see what comes up.
Yes, good idea.
> What is a competent search engine? Google seems to be falling apart. It
> could not find the sun in midday now.
Well, try Google before complaining. :)
Searching for "wordperfect linux" (without the quotes) on Google brings up a
very informative FAQ, including links to download sites.
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