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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: A book on KOffice
From:       JohnZed () aol ! com
Date:       1999-06-22 12:52:15
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Like everyone else on this list, I'd love to see a book on KOffice.  It puts 
you in the unique position that you can actually distribute a copy of KDE + 
the Office suite for free on CD with the book.  Let's see Using Microsoft 
Office try that.
But I also must add that it is VERY premature to write a book about it.  The 
launch of KDE 1.1.2 is still, what, 5 weeks away?  And KDE 2.0 is still 
months down the line.  The feature set for KOffice is far from stabilized.  I 
know that the whole publishing process takes quite some time, but this is 
just a warning.  I don't want to see the first book on KOffice either 
outdated or poorly organized (because of last-minute additions when it comes 
out).  
The potential user base, though, is tremendous.  As was pointed out earlier, 
KDE ships with every modern linux distribution and KOffice 1.0 will be 
packaged with KDE 2.0.  Considering that many, many retailers see linux 
distros among their top 10 most popular packages, and millions of copies have 
been bought or downloaded in the past year, KOffice could quickly become the 
default productivity application for all of linux.  
--JZ

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