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Inkscape is a good Corel Draw replacement, and the drawing functions in Open/Libre Office aren't bad.

Adobe hasn't been able, nor has Corel or Xara or Serif and several other companies.

You don't see something like Corel Painter being hosted together with a bunch of other software on a bigger entity's website.

In the end Corel set up several acquisitions, which of course took some time to go through all the approval processes.

In around 2003 Microsoft sold their Corel stock to the venture capital firm Vector for about £13 million (10% of their original investment).

I can't say that I've heard anyone mention a Corel office product in over a decade.

The problem was that the penalty clauses for backing out of the acquisitions would once again put Corel into a very difficult situation financially.

I suppose that if Apple buys Adobe, makes everything but Flash players Mac only, then Corel can finally make a comeback...?

After a few generations raised on smartphones and tablets without any Microsoft apps, Microsoft Office would just be a curiosity their parents used, like Corel Draw or dBase.

We had some really great people but the biggest drag on us was the fact that in the late 90s Corel released some really shitty versions of their software.

Bridgeman Art Library v Corel Corp is the most recent caselaw I know on this and judges that faithful reproduction doesn't acquire a new copyright.

Indeed, Corel once won a lawsuit showing that the Canadian government was making RFPs which specified that the software had to come from MS (which is against Canadian government policy).

The only times I've needed anything else have been because the printers say "we only accept a PSD" or "files must be from Corel 9" or whatever.

Corel issued new stock to cover the deal and I think it represented about 25% of total equity.

Vector bought up all the remaining stock for $133 million, using about $80 million of Corel's remaining cash to finance the deal.

At that time, the hallowed brands were the likes of Borland and Corel.