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Subject: Re: Microsoft's 3rd man speaks out fear of KOffice
From: weis () stud ! uni-frankfurt ! de
Date: 1999-01-30 22:38:52
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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/
>
>
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