Why one more office project

On Tuesday 16 October 2007, Daniel Carvalho wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been using KDE at SUSE and I appreciate it a lot,
in 2005 I did a
> small contribution translating some KDE app to Br
Portuguese.

Excellent!

> I used to work with OpenOffice, and I'm wondering why
one more office
> project? 

It's the other way around, historically: KOffice came first,
and only later 
did Sun create the open source OpenOffice out of the
proprietary StarOffice.

> In fact there are some of them, and so, I can't see at
KOffice web 
> site stuff like objectives and mission of KOffice.

What we try to achieve is neatly summarized on our website:
"the most 
comprehensive office suite" We try to cover both the
business and the 
creative needs for people engages with day-to-day content
creation, from 
school kids doing their papers, to plumbers running their
business, to 
artists engaging in building their portfolio and tracking
their sales. We're 
not focused on taking over the corporate secretary's
desktop. We are focused 
on integrating the functionality people need in a way that
makes it easy to 
produce the documents they want.

> What is the objective of 
> KOffice facing other good open source and free Office
app? 

I don't think we really define ourselves vis-a-vis
OpenOffice, Gnome Office, 
Siag Office or Andrew -- we're doing our own thing. If you
absolutely need a 
comparison, instead of looking at the thing on its own
merits, how about 
Apple's iWork vs MS Office? 

Historically, Andrew came first, then Siag, then KOffice,
then Gnome Office 
(if you consider Abiword and Gnumeric to consist of one
suite) and then 
OpenOffice. 

> (I think that 
> KOffice is good too)

So do we :-


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Daniel Carvalho wrote:
> Hi,
>
> <snip>
>
> I used to work with OpenOffice, and I'm wondering why
one more office 
> project? In fact there are some of them, and so, I
can't see at 
> KOffice web site stuff like objectives and mission of
KOffice. What is 
> the objective of KOffice facing other good open source
and free Office 
> app? (I think that KOffice is good too)
>
> <snip>
>
> Daniel de Souza Carvalho

I've made a start on developing a "vision"
statement here : 
http://koffice
.wikidot.com/vision:main

I'm hoping others will see fit to contribute.  I've made the
category 
"vision" open to non-members to edit.

-- 

Regards, Terry North

If you try to please everyone, no one will like it.

 

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Terry wrote:
> Daniel Carvalho wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> I used to work with OpenOffice, and I'm wondering
why one more office 
>> project? In fact there are some of them, and so, I
can't see at 
>> KOffice web site stuff like objectives and mission
of KOffice. What is 
>> the objective of KOffice facing other good open
source and free Office 
>> app? (I think that KOffice is good too)
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> Daniel de Souza Carvalho
>>     
>
> I've made a start on developing a "vision"
statement here : 
> http://koffice
.wikidot.com/vision:main
>
> I'm hoping others will see fit to contribute.  I've
made the category 
> "vision" open to non-members to edit.
>
>   
Coming off this at a different angle, having multiple office
suites 
lessens the chance that one will completely dominate the
others.  I 
would not want OpenOffice to succeed because KOffice went
under nor the 
other way around. If both of them survive then you have
choice, and that 
is the ultimate reason for any free market, not just let the
best suite 
"win".

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