RE: [newbie] Microsoft bails out Corel!!

[Larry Marshall]

>  turns StarOffice into something decent. Wordperfect was buggy, like all
>  commercial software. They should have made it opensource. A shame RedHat
>  couldn't buy Corel. They do have some useful software I'd like to see
>  opensourced.

What would you do with it?  Large chunks of Word Perfect are written in
assembler.  THAT'S the problem; it's hell to port stuff like that so instead
they just made it run with Wine.

Cheers --- Larry