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Corel makes, among other things, WordPerfect and its accompanying software, which is now the only (slight) competition left to Microsoft's all-conquering Office.

But the $135m bail-out also ensures that Corel and WordPerfect do not disappear, taking with them any pretence that Microsoft has office-software competition.

In 1994 Novell bought WordPerfect, a word-processing firm, for $1.4 billion; two years later it sold it to Corel, a Canadian firm, for around $200m.

In much the same way monopolists, keen to persuade antitrust regulators that they face real competition, often have an interest in preserving vanquished rivals.Although neither company would admit it, that is part of the reason behind Microsoft's purchase this week of a quarter of Corel, a Canadian software firm.

In August, its founder and chief executive, Michael Cowpland, dogged also by charges of insider trading, resigned.Microsoft says it bought into Corel to encourage the rival to support its new.NET technology initiative.

Helped by a few problems of its own making, this took Corel to the brink of bankruptcy.

Of the large software firms, only Netscape and Corel have so far pledged full support.

The Police Judiciaire said Olivier Corel was detained for questioning on Tuesday and jailed for illegal possession of a hunting rifle.

More than 60 gendarmes, armoured vehicles and two helicopters raided the tiny village of Artigat in Ariège in central France and arrested the so-called "White Emir", Olivier Corel.

Finger painting with the Corel Painter app, in particular, shows the limits of the system: while the infrared sensor can track very precise movements, unless you're a surgeon your hovering fingers aren't steady enough to control the on-screen cursor to that precise degree, leading to works of art a six-year-old would scoff at.

Painting programs like Corel Painter Freestyle (free) require the same technique.