Re: [HACKERS] Most Advanced

On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Also, Corel bough Inprise/Borland, so there is no way of knowing what
> will happen with Interbase now. I just heard that the new WordPerfect
> Office will run under WINE(yuck) rather than native Linux/Unix. That
> is quite bad and a clear failure for Corel IMHO. Corel doesn't seem
> to be very good at enlisting assistance in open source projects. The
> developed their _own_ version of WINE to get Word Perfect Office out
> the door, and they say they will merge their changes in "later" to
> main WINE distribution. Their WINE source is accessible, though.

Actually, I think you might be looking at this wrong ... figure that Corel
is putting resources into making WINE a viable "engine" to running
Micro$loth applications ... WINE is open source.

Now, which is better/easier? Re-code Wordperfect Office (one app) to run
natively, or improve an open source application so that Linux/Unix can run
any existing Micro$loth product? Which is cheaper in the long run?

If they were starting WordPerfect from scratch, okay ... but how many
hundreds of thousands of lines of Windoze specific code is in
WP-Office? :)

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