Does Corel have any plans to follow a similar marketing strategy?
Corel is a commercial enterprise but we fully support the objectives and goals of the open source community. We demonstrate that commitment by dedicating resources to open source projects and returning our work to the open source community. We’re doing this because we believe in Linux and have the same objective as many people in the Linux community – to make the OS accessible to as many people as possible. Traditionally Linux has been focused on the server market but we believe the key to its future is moving Linux to the desktop community. This is a different distribution focus and a different market. We want to combine Wine with our native applications and other applications to provide a package suitable for everyone. Will WordPerfect Office 2000 run under Wine emulation, or will it use the WINElib option (be natively compiled and linked with WINElib)? Our intention is to have a natively compiled version for Linux but it will also run in binary mode. The exact configurations of the
