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| Authored by: Wol on Saturday, June 09 2012 @ 03:06 PM EDT |
Don't forget also, that until Corel rewrote it as WordPerfect 9, the original
WordPerfect codebase was not even originally a PC product!
And WordPerfect up to and including v8 (here we are talking v6) was truly
cross-platform. I ran v5 on SCO. I've got a copy of a *native* WordPerfect 8 for
linux. Etc etc.
So if there was all this stuff about "WordPerfect needs to have a plan to
be cross-platform" well sorry, WordPerfect didn't need a plan - it already
was cross-platform!
(History - WP was born iirc on Data General, ran on several minis, and v4 was
available on CP/M)
Cheers,
Wol[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: RMAC9.5 on Sunday, June 10 2012 @ 01:48 AM EDT |
As an early WordPerfect DOS and PC user I completely agree with this analysis
because of all of the math functions that were coded into WordPerfect (e.g. most
people at that time would not have needed a spreadsheet) and all of the DOS file
managers that were considered to be superior to Microsoft's file manager in
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| Authored by: Ian Al on Sunday, June 10 2012 @ 04:45 AM EDT |
The judge agrees with you that WordPerfect suite is a middleware platform that
can displace Win 95. However, if the enhanced window features are only available
on Win 95 then it is not competing. You have to have Win 95 anyway.
The judge accepts that WordPerfect Suite is middleware, However, he insists on
seeing that Wordperfect/Novell planned to make all those window features
available on other window manager OS platforms before he will be convinced that
there is a middleware issue of competing with Windows 95 rather than the other
issue of competing with Microsoft Office which has already been dealt with by
the courts.
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Regards
Ian Al
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