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Re: MS supporting linux?



On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Ilya Konstantinov wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 09:58:42PM +0200, dgi_il@hotmail.com wrote:
> > At sunday in Zombit, I heard that Mircrosoft invested in Corel, and then
> > Corel went deeeper into linux. Now Word has no competition (at leaast in the
> > Win32 platform). But Corel is also also one of the biggests programmers of
> > WINE. So it leads me to 2 points:
> 
> I think Corel has recently announced quiting the Linux business and has
> gone into some .NET partnership with Microsoft.
> 
> You can understand them, since Corel was never really accepted well
> inside the community.
>

That's not entirely correct. Corel will sell their Linux distribution to
someone else while keeping their Linux ports of Corel Office and
Corel-Draw. Assuming the latter two will be maintained, I believe they
will continue to work on WINE.


 
> > PS.
> > How will the computer world look in 2099? MS is computer. WDM is the
> > standard for every Microwave, VideoClock and MP3 player. Gates is like a
> > god. And linux is outlwed. Pronouncing it may bring you into jail. There are
> > some undergrounds, but in the time they will loose control over the OS since
> > they can not find the Hawking which gide you through the next wizard. Then
> > the matrix will start using people as power and left to do is wait for Keanu
> > Reabs to save us all... (I think I should stop drinkoing, or may be start
> > drinking more?).
>

dgi_il: you should stop drinking. 

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish
 
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Ilya Konstantinov
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