From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jun 29 20:11:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4DA737B412 for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 20:11:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b109.otenet.gr [195.167.121.237]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f5U3BSF14091; Sat, 30 Jun 2001 06:11:28 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.4/8.11.3) id f5U3BOw20914; Sat, 30 Jun 2001 06:11:24 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 06:11:23 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Don Wilde Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Microsoft giving back to FreeBSD !! Message-ID: <20010630061123.E20203@hades.hell.gr> References: <3B3A2E2F.A74DDCC8@pitt.edu> <3B3A2ECF.6FECA0E3@Silver-Lynx.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B3A2ECF.6FECA0E3@Silver-Lynx.com>; from Don@Silver-Lynx.com on Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 01:06:55PM -0600 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 X-URL: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/index.html Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [ Trimmed Cc: list. Do we have to cross-post? ] On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 01:06:55PM -0600, Don Wilde wrote: > "Pedro F. Giffuni" wrote: > > > Perhaps now that they are working with Corel on this, and FreeBSD is > > one of the two supported platforms we can finally get a native port of > > Corel's office suite. (there you go ... a plausible campaign). > > My understanding is that Corel has been running away at hyperspeed from > Linux. Their Corel Draw graphics suite is no longer supported as a > front-line product, for example. Which linux of them all? Oh, oh, you mean Corel Linux? *sigh* Well, it can be kind of daunting and rather tiresome to try to make Corel-Draw work out of the box on an infinite number of distributions. On the other hand, there are loads of programs out there that seem to manage perfectly fine. Corel Draw is a nice program to have. It always seems to do wonders with graphics, once you get the hang of the usual Corel stupidness of implementing a GUI of their own and not relying on the OS/API beneath to provide with the interface style. I even bought a copy of the program when I was running Linux on my home PC. If not for the sake of having a nice vector graphics program around, just for making sure that those few bucks would probably make it apparent that good commercial software *can* and *will* be bought by Open Source users. Then support was dropped. And it seemed to bring back all those dim memories of hating commercial vendors, just because of the ease which they can 'abandon' their users with. You mean *that* Corel? Somehow, I dont seem to be interested in them anymore. -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message