"Roger Blake" wrote in message
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On 2015-10-06, Don Y wrote:
aggressively. Why did MSWord bury WordPerfect? Was it because
WP had some onerous licensing terms/technology?

My recollection is that it was because the initial releases of
Word Perfect for Windows were worse than atrocious.

That's what I recall.

Maybe for "plain jane" applications (office/productivity suites).
But, have you compared the features and quality of those "modern"
FOSS offerings with *paid* offerings from 20 years past?

FOSS does everything that I need, have not used commercial software
for many years.

And it does for me, too, although I do use a lot of commercial software as
well. Whatever does the job well at the lowest cost to me. I am sure most
programmers have the same sort of utility CD/DVD that I have containing all
the FOSS that's been of use - WireShark, Hexedit, VNC, VLC, WinZip, SANDRA,
MemTest and many, many more.

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Bobby G.