[ Thanks to Prakash
Advani for this link. ]
“Dr. Michael Cowpland, president and CEO of Corel Corporation,
hardly needs an introduction. An engineer by qualification, Dr
Cowpland began his career at Bell Northern Research in 1964. In
1985, he founded Corel one of the largest software companies in the
world. The company is now helping develop the fast growing
Linux platform; in fact, Corel plans to port a majority of its
applications to Linux. Mike Cowpland talks of his plans for
Corel and his views on Linux to FreeOS.com….”
“How is Corel helping the Linux community?”
“We have been doing work with Corel Linux in the GPL or Mozilla
open source licenses. The Wine work that we are doing is been put
back into the community. The Corel File Manager, all of which we
wrote ourselves, has been put back into the community. We are
actually very supportive of the open source concept. On the
applications side we don’t see those as being open source because
there are dozens and dozens of third party utilities that we
select, tune-up and include. That’s what makes a very rich
applications because the core software is only part of the source.
It is the other utilities that make them useful. As we have to pay
royalties for many of these, its impossible to give them free.”