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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: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?