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When Corel launched Corel Linux and bundled it with WordPerfect for Linux, Microsoft immediately bought 24 million shares of Corel and then Corel killed its Linux line of products.

It was good while it lasted. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4d/Corel_Linux.p...

Today I use FreeOffice from SoftMaker. A really nice product.

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Too bad the anti-trust office was on vacation that day?

I haven't heard of FreeOffice before, it looks like an interesting product. How do they support devlopment? It is closed source and doesn't appear to have a pricing model.

EDIT: Investigating a bit more there appears to be a paid version called SoftMaker Office, so I guess the free version acts as a funnel.

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