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I had no idea Corel was so into Linux.

• lproven 5y ago
  Hi. Article author here. Oh yes indeed. MS forced them to change course. I should add a paragraph about that.
  • bcrl 5y ago
    If my memory serves correctly, revenue from CorelDraw also began to decrease around that time. The market underwent a recession after the dot com boom turned into a bust, and a lot of companies that had been flush with cash had to cancel projects that were not essential to their core business. It's quite sad. WordPerfect was a product I used a lot in the 1990s. LibreOffice and Word drives me nuts these days as so many things with the document model just don't make sense, whereas WordPerfect 5.1 and reveal codes made it easy to delete stray formatting codes to get the desired results.
    • lproven 5y ago
      Yup, sounds fair. WordPerfect Corp screwed up twice over, and it's a minor miracle any of it survived. First, it bought into the hype and spent a lot of effort porting WP to OS/2 -- then OS/2 bombed, of course. It subsequently did a Windows version, but the first version was not a very good Windows app. The company spent a huge amount of effort on bringing across its own industry-best printer-driver system... but Windows already provided that, so it was largely a wasted effort. (WP had fantastic printer support and could really get the absolute best out of any printer's capabilities. Windows just ignored all that, and dumped a bitmap of the page to the printer in graphics mode. Terrible on a dot-matrix or early inkjet, but it did get you all the fancy fonts and so on. But when Windows 3.1 included its own TrueType font rendering system, and as the market moved to hires bubblejets and lasers, it was the way to go.) WordPerfect for Windows did evolve into a very good app, in time. I wish I'd bought a legit version when it was part of the Remote Worker's Humble Bundle last year. :-(