From koffice  Mon Mar 20 08:48:29 2000
From: mosfet <mosfet () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 08:48:29 +0000
To: koffice
Subject: Re: Really the Obvious
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Jacques Chester wrote:
> 
> I hate to be seen as a troll, but ...
> 
> I know that the KDE Project and the GNOME
> Project have co-operated in the past where
> interoperability has been important.
> 
> Will this be true for office suites? Has
> anyone from GNOME Office contacted this
> list? Has anyone from this list contacted
> GNOME Office? Should we?
> 
> I think the real issue is interchangable
> file-formats, or at least seamless filters.
> 
> Anyone?
> 

Filters can't be interchangable because their filter library is not
LGPL. For file formats they are reinventing an entire filesystem, which
at least to me seems not quite sane.

> be well;
> 
> JC.

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