Why didn Corel itself release any fix for the MS-Word / Filtrix problem, especially given its obligations to purchasers of boxed-set versions?
Good question. By the time the problem cropped up, Corel had discontinued all involvement in Linux. Just before that, Microsoft Corporation made a major investment in Corel, preventing the latter firm’s collapse. It’s possible that lack of Linux-competent staffing was an issue, that Corel didn’t wish to displease its investor, that the firm perceived inexpensive Linux versions to be impairing sales of its US $500 versions for other Unixes (especially given increasingly common support for Linux-native binaries on those Unixes), or that corporate inertia after liquidating the entire Linux division accounted for this lapse. (Corel was later passed to Vector Capital, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s venture-capital firm, which took Corel private.) Corel’s only comment (November 5, 2001) was “The corporation is not prepared to make any comment”, and to post a comment on http://linux.corel.com/support/updates.htm#wp8, unchanged since late 2001, that “Corel is currently working with the filt
Good question. By the time the problem cropped up, Corel had discontinued all involvement in Linux. Just before that, Microsoft Corporation made a major investment in Corel, preventing the latter firm’s collapse. It’s possible that lack of Linux-competent staffing was an issue, that Corel didn’t wish to displease its investor, that the firm perceived inexpensive Linux versions to be impairing sales of its US $500 versions for other Unixes (especially given increasingly common support for Linux-native binaries on those Unixes), or that corporate inertia after liquidating the entire Linux division accounted for this lapse. (Corel was later passed to Vector Capital, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s venture-capital firm, which took Corel private.) Corel’s only comment (November 5, 2001) was “The corporation is not prepared to make any comment”, and to post a comment on http://linux.corel.com/support/updates.htm#wp8, unchanged since late 2001, that “Corel is currently working with the filt
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