Re: take KOffice out of Kde?

> Thanks for the replies.
>
> A higher profile for KOffice would be just as much to my liking.  I am
> enjoying KWord even with its peculiarities.  I'm also looking forward to
> KSpread 2.0 being able to open my spreadsheets.
>
> A higher profile for KOffice needs to involve the Linux distros,
> particularly those which favour Kde.  I don't use the K desktop but I do
> use a lot of K applications.  I'm endeavouring to get a discussion going
> on the PCLinuxOS forum.

> A KOffice forum seems to be a good way to build a community of KOffice
> users.  KOffice needs to be more noticed to attract more backing.
>
>
> Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> > 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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> Regards, Terry North
>
> Murphy's Law is recursive.
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