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Gobe Productive GPL Release In Danger
Elliot writes "Gobe, developers of Gobe Productive, a fast and lightweight office suite initally developed for the BeOS and later ported to Windows and Linux (which never made it past beta stage), announced in August that they would be open sourcing Gobe Productive under the GPL. Unfortunately, it appears that financial issues might prevent this from happening. A shame to see yet another wonderful piece of software [possibly] fail."
just google it...a ll.tgz
gobe productive 3.0 for linux is right here: http://www.gobe.com/downloads/gobe_linux_x86_inst
>The answer to the market dominance of Office isn't to prosecute Microsoft for playing unfairly.
Actually, it is. When a monopoly abuses their power , the solution is to prosecute. That's what happened. Microsoft was found guilty of abusing monopoly power. The fact that the justice department decided to not even slap MSFT on the wrist is seperate issue.
this is getting old and so are you
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I just went to K->Office->wordprocessors->KWord and started Kword. (Thats where my default install of mandrake put it) I then typed sum stuff, went to print and selected "Print to file (PDF/Acrobat)." Can't get much easier than that I would think.
Anyhow, KOffice is an office suit I would like to see get more attention, as it can be so easily integrated into other KDE applications. Unfortunately my last experiances with it (one release previous to the current release) left me a bit miffed, as it didn't actually PRINT the way it was formated on screen.
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.
I think you may have misread the article. Actually, that's not how it works. See, FreeRadical has to purchase the rights to the code in order to open-sorce it. FreeRadical Software and Gobe are two seperate entities. FreeRadical wants to be the new owner of the Gobe product Gobe Productive (and they are the ones who want to open-source it) They do not currently have rights to the program/code needed to release the sourcecode under GPL/Open Source. Now yes, one would wonder why Gobe won't simply open-source the code (with the exception of the fact that perhaps they see the possibility of further revenue, like selling it to someone, perhaps someone who wants to open-source it like Free Radical Software) Now yes, if Gobe goes bankrupt or completely belly-up, or they decided to just completely abandon the project and thought that nobody would be interested, then yes, they might as well open-source the code if it became abandonware, In my opinion, that's probably what software companies should do. However, as long as they see some sort of viable market for the software, then they will not open-source it.
Or perhaps I misread it?
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If you want Office, you have to buy a copy.
That's true enough, but you'll often find Microsoft Works bundled with new PCs (e.g. the one I bought a couple of weeks ago), and that comes with Word. To a lot of people, Word *is* Office, as they almost never use Powerpoint or Excel, don't think of Outlook as part of Office, and wouldn't even know what Access is.
Also, if you look around enough, you will find Office bundled with new PCs. They'll be the sort that cost a fortune, and come with a printer, scanner, etc, but you can find them.
It's official. Most of you are morons.
However if this is a publicly traded company then they owe it to there investors to keep there IP offlimits. They can be sued bigtime if they did this.
What the hell are you talking about? Red Hat GPLs nearly everything they write, and no one has ever even thought about suing them for it.
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