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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: exchanging documents written in kword or kspread
From:       "Jacques Chester" <jacques.chester () student ! usyd ! edu ! au>
Date:       2000-08-24 23:49:49
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> Now that StarOffice is being GPL'd -- they have pretty good
> import/export filters.  Any chance of using those?  They can be
> stand-alone apps running via DCOP so that nobody can complain about
> linking to Qt (assuming Qt is not GPL-compatible according to FSF
> by that point).

Sun haven't yet committed to a date for the
port. They hinted that they wanted to rewrite
most if not all of StarOffice. Nobody that
I've talked to expects to see it up and
running for another year or two. So unless
they have a fit of sanity, we won't see
those filters for some time.

> Ciao,
>
> Andreas

be well;

JC.

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