Re: [Trisquel-users] Corel Draw Replacement

[chris]

Corel Draw isn't free unfortunately although it did once run on GNU/Linux.  
Corel actually was behind Xandros (sold off, was called Corel Linux under  
Corel) which eventually went defunct shortly after acquiring Linspire. Though  
there is another company I believe that acquired Xandros's assets. That  
company is still around, but the products are all gone. Corel was actually  
paid by Microsoft some insane amount of money to back off its move to port  
all its applications to GNU/Linux. The CEO got scared because it was costing  
the company money to do the porting. As a result things weren't looking good,  
but had they continues Corel would probably be Microsoft today. One of its  
primary problems was it didn't have an operating system whereas Microsoft  
did. And they also had at one time one of the popular office suites until  
Microsoft ate there lunch.