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Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] Contest: Working version of KOffice 1.5 on Windows,
From:       David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date:       2006-05-17 11:49:40
Message-ID: 200605171349.41167.faure () kde ! org
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On Wednesday 17 May 2006 13:22, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 May 2006 13:11, Martijn Klingens wrote:
> > On Wednesday 17 May 2006 11:33, Jürgen Appel wrote:
> > > /me thinks that having already paid 1000 $ in the last koffice contest
> > > gives the person a _quite_ well reputation.
> > 
> > Is this the same person then?
> > 
> > > I assume he remained anonymus during the last contest as well.
> > 
> > He may remain anonymous, but at the very least I'd like to see some more
> > rationale behind this. It's an insanely short deadline (a month?!?) for a
> > LOT of work. $3000 is not even remotely comparable to the $1000 of last
> > contest, where it was a reasonable price in terms of required effort. $3k
> > is NOT reasonable, it is more like freeriding. Not to mention that there's
> > no Free software Qt available for KDE 3.
> > 
> > And given that KOffice 2 will have all this when it's released I have the
> > feeling that announcing this on the dot will do us more harm than good.
> 
> I fully agree with Martijn.

I don't see the point in this contest either, given that anyone could port KOffice \
trunk to Windows for less work and using a GPL version of Qt 4 - and the result would \
actually be useful to the future of KOffice.

-- 
David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).
 
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