"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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Member since:2007-01-29
Well so what, that just means a lot of people in the first world will more and more be left behind a hell lot of more people in the rest of the world. If it's their choice, hey who is going to question that, or even care about it?
Besides, it's not actually about converting present windows users to FOSS. Most developers rather concentrate on improving upon something referred to as... THE CODE(tm) 
the battle for market share - which is really not so much an important war for the community as there is nothing to loose for us - will be decided by big PC vendors who either put GNU/Linux/KDE4 on the machine and sell it for 100 bucks less, or install Vista on it for the conservatives. For the newbies, the branding advantage of Microsoft clearly doesn't count that much - their minds are not yet littered with WOW and bling, they just want an internet gaming typewriter toaster.
In the end, as I understand this free market crap, the cheaper better product should win over the overly-marketed but costful and restricting alternative.
The quality of most FOSS apps has progressed very nicely over the last years bringing it mostly on par with commercial offers, here behind and there ahead - the speed of progress though and the steep advance of shared base technologies make me really look forward into a bright future of actually WORKING computer software.
The inevitable rise of the open source mentality clearly demonstrates the superiority of the principle cooperation versus the outdated market competition regime and 'intellectual property' ideology. Hooray for b.. shaaring xD
Member since:2005-07-06
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2005-07-06
I think the better question is, "If all of the good applications are ported to Windows, what's to stop someone from moving away from Windows? None. That's what people like you don't get about this."
That statement is just absolutely ludicrous. You're asking 'What's to stop someone from moving away from Windows?' There isn't an action implied anywhere in that question. The real question is 'What's going to make someone actually make the move from Windows to something else?' If all the good applications are ported to Windows then it's certainly not the applications that are going to make people move. If not them then nothing is going to give people the incentive to move.