Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 12:42:03 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Coleman <chris@bbcc.ctc.edu> To: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Corel Port to FreeNix. (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981103124018.23495A-100000@bbcc.ctc.edu>
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On Oct 30th Corel made an announcement to support Wine to make Corel Suite available to Linux. I wrote an e-mail to the guy from Corel and this is his response. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 12:17:14 -0500 From: Gavriel State <gavriels@COREL.CA> To: chris@bbcc.ctc.edu Cc: kellyf@COREL.CA Subject: Re: Corel Port to FreeNix. >>> Chris Coleman <chris@bbcc.ctc.edu> 11/02 9:52 PM >>> >Gavriel, > > Using wine seems like a wonderful Idea. This will allow FreeBSD to >run Corel Suite also. Do you have any active plans to market this to the >FreeBSD community? > >We are currently putting together a "Logo" that identifies vendors who >have FreeBSD Compatible binaries. Would you be interested in posting >these on your web sites? We would also list your site in our "FreeBSD >Commercial Products" Web pages. > >When your product it available, I can announce in my FreeBSD Newsletter >and write up an article for the Daemon News (BSD online Magazine.) > >Keep me posted on your progress, we use Corel Suite 8 at the college I >work at, and it would be great to have it for BSD. > >BSD really needs a good Word Processing Suite. We're aware of Winelib's portability to other OSes and CPU platforms - it was in fact one of the reasons we chose to support it. That said, my understanding is that there are still some compatability issues for Wine that have yet to be resolved for non-Linux OSes (specifically threading support). In addition to this, there are also quality assurance considerations; when we ship something, we want to ensure that what goes out the door is a high quality product. To do this we have to make a significant investment in QA resources, which has to be duplicated across every OS and CPU platform our products run on. Because of this, we're not ready to make a firm commitment to supporting these other platforms yet. It is certainly something we will be looking at very carefully in the future. Thanks, -Gav -- Gavriel State Project Leader - Linux Applications Software Corel Corp. gavriels@corel.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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