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KOffice Team: A Handful of Coders, a Lot of Code

Posted by timothy on from the kword-rocks dept.

nickbrown writes: "In this interview with the KOffice development team it is revealed that only about 4-6 people are working on the suite of applications. It would appear they lack the resources to keep up with the likes of openoffice. Worth a read as it highlights the troubles they are having trying to produce a truly productive office suite for KDE."

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  1. Re:How about collaboration? by John_Booty · · Score: 5, Funny

    The project is so big, to compete with MSO, that perhaps all the different groups (OpenOffice, KDEOffice, Gnome office, Gnumeric, Abiword, etc) should all collaborate somehow and make a killer product. Then maybe we'd have a MSO killer.

    Sure! Because combining 4-5 totally different codebases that do the same thing always results in a product that's 4-5 times better!

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  2. Re:Are they supper coders or by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    are they using supper tools.

    Actually, these aren't requirements even for great programmers. Linus, for example, still takes time to eat with his family, and codes with just his hands.

  3. Re:How about collaboration? by Rentar · · Score: 2, Funny
    Sure! Because combining 4-5 totally different codebases that do the same thing always results in a product that's 4-5 times better!

    Wasn't that the way Emacs was made?