Re: Business models [was: Re: WordPerfect]

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

David Restall - System Administrator wrote:
<snip>
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
<snip>
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@.

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