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Gobe Productive GPL Release In Danger

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the non-gift-of-gab dept.

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."

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  1. Gobe is/was awesome by kannibal_klown · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I bought a copy shortly after slashdot posted an article about it. It was a great software package. It was lite and quick, a hell of a lot quicker than OpenOffice and StarOffice, and the interface was just... clean.

    My favorite part was the ability to export to PDF so easily.

    My only complaint was the Spreadsheet program wasn't as robust as some of the other packages out there, but it still worked.

    I hope everything works out for them. Personally, I think this was one of the best office packages around.

    1. Re:Gobe is/was awesome by Big+Mark · · Score: 5, Interesting

      It was designed for the BeOS, which was itself fast, lightweight and clean, so what did you expect?

      OK, neither were fully-featured but they did everything 75% of people would ever need.

      -Mark