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Looking At Gobe

Posted by Hemos on from the checking-it-out dept.

mneptok writes: "OSNews is running a review of a beta version of Gobe Productive, the office productivity suite initially developed for BeOS by the former producers of ClarisWorks. The beta tested by OSNews is for Windows, but a Linux GTK (and that's toolkit only) version is planned for release after the Win32 version ships. A public beta of the Win32 version is imminent. Looks like a nice, affordable 'army knife' office app for Windows users, and a serious contender in the Linux office space." We had some coverage of this a while back,

5 of 192 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Save as .PDF??? by Teancom · · Score: 3, Informative

    Search for ps2pdf, espitopdf, db2pdf, dvi2pdf, html2pdf, a2pdf, even pdf2pdf (for different versions). All free software, or it wouldn't be on my debian box :-)

  2. Re:Personally... by Cheesy+Fool · · Score: 0, Informative

    If you choose the default directory, it would be:

    cd /usr/local/OpenOffice.org638C/program
    ./soffice

    --

    Hail to the king, baby!
  3. Re:Interesting Idea - Hard To Sell by snarfer · · Score: 2, Informative

    I noticed on the website that you can pre-order Gobe Productive for only $39.95.

  4. Re:What's most interesting.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    well, in all fairness, GoBe productive was the third office suite they had written (Styleworks GS/AppleWorks GS, then ClarisWorks for mac), so they had experience and an understanding of how they wanted an office suite to work.

    Being paid full time, though? Yes and no. It is their dayjob, but they put up a lot of the capital themselves, and accepted significantly smaller paychecks than they could have gotten had they been working elsewhere or ridden the .com wave.

    emacs and gcc were written by a dedicated individual with talent (regardless of what you think of RMS' bathing habits or politics), so I think what matters most is skill and devotion, 2 things generally lacking in 60% of slashdt readers (the other 40% are skillful, devoted trolls).

  5. Re:Save as .PDF??? by iso · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, PDF does not require a license from Adobe. It's a remarkably open file format actually; I'm surprised that it isn't used by open source advocates more often.

    - j