Business models [was: Re: WordPerfect]

[Janne Jokitalo]

Gah, sorry for the poor re-make of the subject line, fixed now.

David Restall - System Administrator wrote:
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> The question has to be why ?  I was a long time user of WordPerfect on 
> DOS & SunOS and didn't like the windows version of it so bought the Corel
> version of it expecting some good things (TM).   Even when it
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> they should have OpenSourced it and made money on support contracts, they
> would probably have made more money that way than what they did.

Reminds me sooo much of Borland's lousy attempts with Kylix. *sigh*

Why is it that business rots out many good tech things?

Not much to do with support, so setting followups to sounder at .

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Jaska