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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:4 to 6 employees by Darren+Winsper · · Score: 3, Offtopic

    Err...speaking about the web browser part of Konqueror, it has not kicked Mozilla's arse in any way, shape or form. Here's why:

    1) Stability. You can not honestly say Konqueror is any more stable than Mozilla
    2) Cross-platform support. Konqueror is not available on Windows or Mac OS
    3) Standards support. Mozilla has better support for more standards than Konqueror
    4) Scope. Konqueror is just a web browser/file manager. Mozilla has a mail client and an HTML composer. Some people may not want them, but others do. I think the mail part of Mozilla kicks KMail all the way to next Tuesday.
    5) Tabs :)

  2. I would use GNOME by madenosine · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    But Mr. Owl ate my metal worm tub