From koffice  Sat Jan 30 22:38:52 1999
From: weis () stud ! uni-frankfurt ! de
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 22:38:52 +0000
To: koffice
Subject: Re: Microsoft's 3rd man speaks out fear of KOffice
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice&m=92516339527345

Hi,

On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Case Roole wrote:

> Sorry to bother you with such uninteresting matters folks, but you might find
> the following fragment interesting. MIcrosoft's chief attorney John Warden
> questions senior vice president (number 3 in Redmond) Paul Maritz:
> 
>  Q.  WILL YOU TELL THE COURT WHAT IS IN 2318, MR. MARITZ?
> 18   A.  WHAT THE EXHIBIT DESCRIBES IS THE EFFORTS OF A GROUP
> 19   THAT GOES BY THE NAME "KOFFICE."  THIS IS AN OPEN-SOURCE
> 20   MOVEMENT EFFORT TO DEVELOP AN INTEGRATED SUITE OF OFFICE
> 21   PRODUCTIVITY APPLICATIONS, INCLUDING A WORD PROCESSOR, A
> 22   PRESENTATION PACKAGE, A SPREADSHEET PACKAGE, A DRAWING
> 23   PACKAGE, AND SEVERAL OTHER COMPONENTS.
> Q.  OKAY.  RATHER THAN GOING THROUGH EACH OF THESE, CAN WE
> 25   JUST TURN TO THE FIRST SCREEN SHOT, PLEASE.  AND CAN YOU
> 16
> 1   TELL THE COURT WHAT THAT SCREEN SHOT IS?
> 2   A.  THIS IS A SCREEN SHOT OF THEIR SPREADSHEET PROGRAM
> 3   DEMONSTRATING THE VARIOUS CAPABILITIES OF THIS SPREADSHEET
> 4   PROGRAM, AND WHAT THEY ARE POINTING OUT HERE IS THAT, IN
> 5   ADDITION TO THE TRADITIONAL FUNCTIONS LIKE BEING ABLE TO
> 6   ENTER FORMULAS INTO THE SPREADSHEET AND DO ADDITIONS OF ROWS
> 7   AND COLUMNS AND THINGS LIKE THAT, THEY ALSO HAVE MORE
> 8   ADVANCED FUNCTIONS, LIKE BEING ABLE TO AUTOMATICALLY
> 9   GENERATE CHARTS.
> 10             SO THIS IS QUITE A SOPHISTICATED SPREADSHEET.
> 11             THE COURT:  WHAT IS THIS RUN ON?
> 12             THE WITNESS:  THIS RUNS ON THE LINUX OPERATING
> 13   SYSTEM, YOUR HONOR.
> 
> 14   BY MR. WARDEN:
> 15   Q.  IS THIS KOFFICE UNIQUE?
> 16   A.  NO, MR. WARDEN.  TO MY KNOWLEDGE, THIS IS ONE OF A
> 17   COUPLE OF EFFORTS TO DEVELOP OFFICE-PRODUCTIVITY
> 18   APPLICATIONS FOR THE LINUX ENVIRONMENT.
> 
>          19             I AM AWARE OF ANOTHER EFFORT CALLED "ABI SOURCE."
> 
> 20   AND THEY ARE ATTEMPTING TO DO MUCH THE SAME THING.  THEY'VE
> 21   STARTED DEVELOPING, IN PARTICULAR, A VERY HIGH-QUALITY WORD
> 22   PROCESSOR FOR THE LINUX ENVIRONMENT.
> 
> Apparently, you got them pretty scared!

Wow. But I hate being used by microsoft ....

> The transcript from which this is taken is at: 
> http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/trial/transcripts/jan99/01-28-am.htm
> 
> More interesting: this afternoon I attempted to apply IBM's java BeanMaker to
> the kword.dtd in the hope of generating a parser for it. Unfortunately,
> BeanMaker refused to create a parser bean for a dtd going as much as five
> levels deep. Yesterday, I tried the easy way and attempted to create and XSL
> file to convert a kword document to HTML. Unfortunately, this goes best with
> recursive structures, while a kword document is to a high degree iterative.

Could you please explain this a bit more precisely ?

Which tools do already support XSL? I always wanted to convert
KSpreads output to HTML using XSL ...

Bye
Torben
 
> (Eh, just in case, I am not on the list.)
> 
> keep up the good work,
> 
> -cjr
> http://billwatch.net/
> 
>