Installing WordPerfect (was Re:RPM compatability)

[Christopher Browne]

On Feb 4, 2008 3:13 PM, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Yeah corel stupidly thought wine was a solution to the porting problem.

That may seem obvious in retrospect; at the time, they had a lot of
programmers with heavy MSFT knowledge, and that makes WINE attractive
to leverage that knowledge, rather than them having to either:

a) Create a second product, because "WP for Unix" would have great
gobs of it that would be completely separately developed,
b) Build or buy something akin to Bristol's "emulation of Windows on Unix."

To pick WINE as a version of strategy b) isn't *clearly* stupid.
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