Talk:Corel Linux

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Why did Corel abandon Linux?

"WashingtonPost: Microsoft Faces New Antitrust Probe Over Corel Deal" http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A5576-2001Feb14&notFound=true —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.216.202.56 (talk) 12:04, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Corel didn't abandon Linux; they spun it off. The chronology on this page is a bit misleading. At the start of 2001, the company was restructuring (and trying to become profitable again), and making their own Linux distribution didn't really fit in with the company vision. It was the sort of thing that would be better done as its own company, so they entered into talks with Linux Global Partners who were interested in doing exactly that. However, LGP didn't raise the required cash for the deal in time, and development on Corel Linux was quietly shelved in March 2001. I was working there at the time. The deal eventually went ahead anyway: LGP founded Xandros in May, and in August it was publicly announced that Xandros had purchased Corel Linux. 69.157.41.241 (talk) 06:47, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"This, along with other modifications Corel made, meant that Corel Linux suffered at being incompatible with other versions of Linux much more so than other competitors in the industry." Not true. The Corel's KDE works well for me, on Mandrake 7.1 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.133.228.117 (talk) 20:32, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Also, its important to note WordPerfect was late in coming to market with a Windows version. The first mature version, WordPerfect 5.2 for Windows, was released in November 1992. For many computer users, a word processor, email, and maybe one or two other applications (maybe a spreadsheet like Lotus 1-2-3) were the reason d'etre for having and using an IBM compatible PC. The Web was still in its infancy, and much of the internet was still text based. Many faithful customers clung to MS-DOS WP, having learned obscure keystroke commands. Unfortunately WP for Win had failed in the marketplace against WORD (and so had the original company Wordperfect, Inc.), so it seemed logical to try and move faithful DOS and Unix users (who were comfortable with the command line) to linux and avoid the GUI-based apps of quirky Win 3.1 and Win NT. This is completely my own opinion as a user, but I personaly was hoping for a popular adoption of Linux based on ported "Killer Apps" like Word Perfect. Really a separate article on WordPerfect Inc (based in Utah) should be written Cuvtixo (talk) 19:57, 8 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

CFM

I wonder about the negative blurb on CFM instead of sticking to the standard KDE app, KFM at the time: Xandros is doing just the same with XFM (pbbly a continuation of CFM), when Konqueror is even better than KFM was. --Jerome Potts (talk) 20:29, 4 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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I think there should be some mention of the Corel Linux / Word Perfect connection and the fact it was bundled. jbolden1517 ^Talk 23:12, 28 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. WP was central to the distribution, not just part of the later dowloadable WP Office Bundle Cuvtixo (talk) 19:31, 8 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]