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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Member since:2007-02-17
Weirdly enough, KWrite isn't part of KOffice :-). It's a plain text editor. Our word processor is called KWord (and I'm still suprised we haven't been sued for that...)
The threat of being sued for using a straightforward name for a software application is obviously the reason why weird names often have to be used in the first place.
That fact of life alone is, of course, in any sane analysis, complete justification for the KOffice project using names such as Krita and Karbon14 or whatever else doesn't get them sued.
Thankfully the KDE practice of including the applications name as well as its purpose on the menus completely negates any misguided criticism of the names that have had to eventually be chosen.
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2006-03-05
Weirdly enough, KWrite isn't part of KOffice :-). It's a plain text editor. Our word processor is called KWord (and I'm still suprised we haven't been sued for that...)