It'd be really great... (Score 1)

It'd be realyl great if Corel would step up and make an Office Suite for Linux. It really would. They could make CorelDraw for Linux, then they could make all sorts of nice things. But the problem is that they'd still not make any money. How many of you have purchased Corel Suite 2000? How many have purchased any software for linux? Opensource/Freesoftwaring the Corel software would only be worse for them. How does company like Corel make $$$ with an OpenSource strategy. True, the market is wide open for *good* linux apps. They're desparately needed, but no one that uses linux wants to *buy* apps. If I had to buy it, then I couldn't just type "apt-get install appname" I'd have to go to the store, come home, open the box, put the cd in the drive, etc. The point is, until the linux users of the world come to grips with paying for software, then not Corel nor anyone else will make good software for it. That is unles -- they can make it OpenSourced and free to use for private use, but businesses have to buy it. But that's a whole different arguement of how to enforece, etc.