Corel Shuts Down its Open Source Site
Linked by David Adams on Tue 19th Feb 2002 18:19 UTC
In the News According to ZDNet, the final note in Corel's gradual abandonment of its ambitious Linux initiatives seems to have arrived. Corel was involved in several open source projects including its own Linux distro, WINE, Application Printing Services API, Corel Package Utilities, 10n-i18n Internationalization, and Cprof Performance Profiler. The site will only be up through the end of the month.
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Worth trying
by Don Cox on Tue 19th Feb 2002 18:34 UTC

Corel was shot while trying to escape.

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by Anonymous on Tue 19th Feb 2002 20:45 UTC

open source is not a remedy for all troubles

Didn't try too hard
by DrP on Wed 20th Feb 2002 00:28 UTC

PhotoPaint for Linux was complete crap. Couldn't run 5 minutes. Couldn't install WP for Linux. I wonder just how serious they were.

RE: Didn't try too hard
by BakaSmack on Wed 20th Feb 2002 05:15 UTC

I agree with you DrP and would like to add that PhotoPaint and WP were impossible to run on the same machine. PhotoPaint always corrupted my WP installation or vice versa.

I would have liked their products better if they had been native Linux apps instead of relying so much on Wine (nothing against you Wine people out there!)

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by BakaSmack on Wed 20th Feb 2002 05:15 UTC

"open source is not a remedy for all troubles"

No, but Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD are!

However I miss Corel Linux
by Pskz on Wed 20th Feb 2002 22:56 UTC

Maybe xandros.net will at last release their OS?

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