moody (Score 1)

Its only 7:30 am and I have already gone the whole span of emotions that I am capable of experiencing.... (mildly amused to REALLY REALLY PISSED)... The day starts our with a health dose of /. Just like any other morning. I find an article called "Ballmer: Linux Is Top Threat To Windows". I click on this and begin to read. It makes Michael midly amused. See link: http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20010110S0006 I should say that at least MOST of the article makes me happy. Except for one thing. There is mention that Corel might be announcing that they are dumping their linux line. Remember that money that was invested in Corel by M$. This also leads me to another article: http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/INV20001117S0005 Now let's be realistic. I don't think that anyone will argue that the loss of the Corel Linux distro will be of any big loss to anyone. However Corel is not an OS company. (Duh) They are an applications company. And frankly, I was very happy to see a mainstream (although one with less market share) app company create apps for linux that really have been pretty good! WordPerfect for linux for example is a favorite among many linux users. (Like me) And that applications base was growing. Applications that had the same basic look and feel of the Windows counterparts. The same features. The same file formats with out converters or filters. If linux is going to succeed, their will need to be more apps like this!!! I have always felt that the Mac's biggest problem was a lack of such applications. Now it looks like M$ is going to buy the same problem for the Linux OS. If Corel wants to dump its os... Fine... I doubt any one will miss it. But I sure hope that they stay the course with the applications. (As well as other companies following suite.)