[Pc_Support] Corel slower to support OpenDocument, despite standardization effort ...

[Bryan J. Smith]

Damien McKenna <dmckenna at thelimucompany.com> wrote:
> Basically Corel are seeing their market disappear thanks to
> both a free office system and an international standard
> which they don't support, and are getting pissy about it.

They could change that by supporting it.  A lot of firms want
true Corel backward compatibility but the ultimate in
compatibility with other suites.  They _could_ win based on
_features_ -- such as a grammar checker.  It's one thing that
is still an issue with OOo/SO, and the current efforts to
create a grammar checker are lackluster with OOo/SO.

> They don't want to interoperate because honestly it would
> give Wordperfect users an opening to *migrate* to OOo/SO.

I don't think they would.  There would be a reason why they'd
stay with Corel, a good one IMHO -- features.

> Also, who knows if Microsoft's cash injection a few years
> ago didn't have some strings attached which may be playing
> a part in this decision...

That's the Steve Litt theory and I don't buy it.  Especially
since the same could be said for Apple, and look where they
are.

MS cut off Corel before and that led Corel to Linux.  Corel
still has a good Linux/Open Source fanbase in-house.  Why
they aren't supporting ODX (why do they call it ODF?) is
beyond me.  It just seems like suicide.

God knows *I* would like to get Corel Office with my next PC
purchase just for the grammar checker.  Until then, I have my
updated copy of WordPerfect 8 for Linux with the Grammatik 5
Linux port that runs on newer GLibC 2.3 systems just fine.


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