Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 9th Oct 2007 12:27 UTC, submitted by Sandro Hartley
"While the industry is distracted by the ongoing tussle between Microsoft and OpenOffice.org over document formats, the KDE project is quietly preparing the next generation of its own office suite, KOffice, for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. KOffice 2.0, to be released sometime in the first half of 2008, will be cross platform like many other applications in the KDE suite built with the Qt4 GUI toolkit."
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RE[2]: cross platform is an advantage
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RE[3]: cross platform is an advantage
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I agree. Tapping users and developers on Windows can help increase the quality and exposure of the KDE components. The proponents of Linux can then sell their kernel as a drop-in replacement behind the Qt API layer.
Having KDE and KOffice on Windows can also help to sell more commercial licenses for Qt, which would allow Trolltech to expand its efforts and have more power to help OSS.
I've always liked the K side of the fence better than the other one because it's a better-made product on the inside. This is likely because it is developed without too much corporate influence and politicking. It's more of a "true" open-source product, it seems.