On 23 Jan 2002 19:44:55 +0100
Guillaume Cottenceau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> George Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like you and the app
> > vendor are at having a standoff as to who is going to solve the
> > problem and NEITHER of you care that the user is getting screwed
> > in the equation. Now I really don't expect Corel to care whether
> > the user gets screwed or not, but I somehow would expect more of
> > Mandrake. Am I expecting too much here?
>
> We're not talking about the same thing here. One thing is the
> ethical/moral issue, another thing is user satisfaction. Of
> course as a company our main goal is user satisfaction, yet
> sometimes this aim clashes with another issue, and we can't say
> that promoting free software is not deeply connected to user
> satisfaction if you see it more globally.
>
If I can chip in here as just an average joe user.
I own WP8 in both the Win and Linux versions, I like it as a wp and, in the
past have used it often.
But however you cut it WP8 is a commercial application.
As such any resonsability for it maintance, portabilty, and futher development
rest squarly on the shoulders of its developers.
Now, Corel, the outstanding company which brought us the ground breaking
and ever popular Corel Linux (tounge planted firmly in cheek) no longer supports
WP8 in any shape, version or form and in viewing there website one might
wonder if it ever existed.
Am I bothered by this?
Damn right!
Do I feel that it should now be Mandrakes job to ensure that WP8 will run on
each new version of Mandrake Linux?
Oh, it might be nice, but no I do not expect them to do so.
Just as once good hardware becomes old and obsolete and falls by the wayside
so also does software.
WP8 is now becoming another such causualty.
There are now many other good/exellent wps available for linux and most
are being constantly developed and maintained.
If only WP will do then the choice is to spend the $s for WP Office.
In a "perfect" world everything would always work and in dreams I at times
stumble upon one, but then I am once again trying to get that gd nvidia
driver mod to load.
Charles
Do not mourn for the dead, celebrate the living and life.
