On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Terry wrote:
> There seems to be nothing happening on this list. It was different not
> so long ago.
Probably because the exciting things are happening on the svn commit list,
and that's not that user-visibile.
> A couple of us have started thinking about the need for a strong
> competitor in the field of office software. KOffice may have the
> potential. Is there any prospect of it stepping outside of the
> KUniverse with the right support?
Realistically speaking, there will always be a koffice inside the
kde project -- we love KDE. What you could do is start a company
or partner with an existing company, fork KOffice into QOffice and
hire developers. Whether you will able to entice any or many KOffice
developers to join you in that project depends a lot on the way you go
about that effort.
For instance, you will have accept that any improvement to your fork
that the koffice developers like will be incorporated back -- it's lgpl
and gpl, after all. And doing without KDE is hard but possible, doing
without Qt is completely impossible. And even as a KDE application, KOffice
is already cross-platform across X11, Os X and Windows.
We have already been through a similar effort, trying to get serious
funding for KOffice development, but the person who tried to get the
money failed to make good on his promises.
Boudewijn
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