Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 28th May 2009 14:23 UTC, submitted by hotice
While most people focus on Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org as being each other's competitors, there's a third player in this market: KOffice. While KOffice is obviously geared towards use on KDE, it's available for Windows, Mac OS X, and GNOME-based distributions as well, making it much more platform-independent than Microsoft's Office suite. Version 2.0.0 was released today, and comes with a whole boatload of improvements.
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Compare that to KOffice where there isn't any hint as to the purpose of the application in the name. aside from Kwrite, Kspread and Kpresenter?
How about Krita, Karbon etc. Absolutley no hint as to what they do. They're as descriptive as the Adamo by Dell, which sounds like some sort of cream that one would use on a rash further down stairs after being with a girl after a night you'd prefer never occured.
Edited 2009-05-29 12:10 UTC
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iPhone, iTunes, iMac....
True, its funny given that the i used to stand for 'internet' as in, 'if you purchase this product you can get into the internet really fast' - that was back when (and still occuring today) where people think they must get on the internet, they don't know why, but apparently it is the 'next big thing' and they must be part of that 'big thing'.
With that being said, atleast it actually mentions what the purpose of the product is in the name, "iPhone", it's a phone, "iTunes" obviously something about music and playing it, "iMac" which used to be "Internet enabled Mac". Compare that to KOffice where there isn't any hint as to the purpose of the application in the name.
Edited 2009-05-29 06:33 UTC