Can Linux beat XP in homes yet or NOT?

[Les Mikesell]

Gene Heskett wrote:

> Or they have an attitude that makes running their app on any platform/version 
> of linux other than their own downright impossible.  Remember Corel 
> WordPerfect-8?  I have a copy here I paid $70 for way back when, which has 
> never been successfully installed and able to run on any x86 machine I've 
> ever stuck the cd in the drive of.  I don't think WP8 would have a quarter to 
> call somebody that cares, but their installer will not install on anything 
> but a specific version of Corel linux.
> 
> Needless to say, after that experience with Corel, I haven't touched anything 
> else they ever did with MY credit card again.  I must not have been alone 
> either, anybody else remember Corel?

I remember they were bought out by Microsoft and their Linux products 
unsurprisingly died immediately thereafter:
http://www.forbes.com/2000/10/03/1003corel.htm
It is slightly surprising that Canada permitted such a blatantly 
anticompetitive action to happen, but Corel was probably on its way to 
bankruptcy anyway.

> That I have to violently agree with.  We, the users, and very occasionally 
> contributors to the FOSS scene, are sick up to our tonsils in suffering from 
> the efforts of the distro's to differentiate and prevent the intermarriage of 
> the various featuresets in order to do exactly what we shower hate and 
> discontent on M$ for doing, vendor lock-in. 

Debian has never done that.  But we hate them because they don't do 
anything to differentiate their product or make it any easier to use.

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   Les Mikesell
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