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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: KOffice potential, a call for developers
From:       David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date:       2005-01-08 15:13:39
Message-ID: 200501081613.40233.faure () kde ! org
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On Saturday 08 January 2005 15:57, Sven Langkamp wrote:
> On Saturday 08 January 2005 15:30, Raphael Langerhorst wrote:
> > On Saturday 08 January 2005 14:59, Thomas Zander wrote:
> > > On Saturday 08 January 2005 14:07, Raphael Langerhorst wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > I post the article here for review, I'll submit it to dot.kde.org
> > > > a few hours later today.
> > > >
> > > > Article title: KOffice development
> > > >
> > > > from the human-resource-management-dept.
> > > >
> > > > KOffice is one of the youngest office suites available.
> > >
> > > Not true.
> > > Bad idea to start with a questionable statement that is also
> > > counter-productive to the goal (gain respect).
> >
> > "one of the"... well, yes, there is that Java based Office suite
> > (can't remember the name), then there is the combination of some
> > Gnome applications that are considered as an office suite. I don't
> > know how old Hancom Office is...
> > This statement isn't intended to be disrespectful, do you have a
> > suggestion on this? If I can think of sth better I'll also post it.
> > Starting a flamewar on dot.kde.org is definitely not intended, so if
> > it can be avoided beforehand, the better.
> It's one of the oldest free office suites, maybe the oldest. Even 
> OpenOffice.org is younger. If you compare KOffice to non-free office suites 
> like MS Office or StarOffice then KOffice would be really young.

StarOffice started to be developed much before KOffice, didn't it?
OpenOffice.org wasn't written from scratch...

-- 
David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).
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