On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Aaron Olson wrote: ignati >i do, however, think that Corel needs to clean up their act a bit with ignati >respect to GNU/Linux and open source software in general. at a recent ignati >ingram-micro trade show in halifax, nova scotia, canada, corel's "booth ignati >bunnies" claimed that "their Linux OS was based on the Debian kernel" and ignati >proceded to show some market share figures for their distro at their ignati >presentation. it was clear that Corel's representatives were not entirely ignati >informed and were very unprofessional.
i wouldn't be so harsh on corel, chances are they won't be around by the end of the year with the way their cashflow is going.(which btw has little to do with corel's linux division it's their windows division that is suffering dragging the company into the ground) last i heard they got about $35 million in funding and that was supposed to last..till the end of this month or something ? then they are broke again ignati >perhaps we should compile a list of things that we would like to see Corel ignati >do or change in order to jive better with open source. i'd start with 1) i hope they live to make their open source stuff a success. nate ::: http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7:35pm up 25 days, 3:12, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.09, 0.09
