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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. There's a reason by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Software fails because it lacks that special something that provokes everyone to switch. As of yet, there have been no office suites that offer a better experience than Microsoft Office. They've only been advantagous in pricing and openness, and that isn't such a great advantage that people are willing to switch. As a student, I'd spent a couple of years using non-Microsoft suites and always been disappointed. I first used Corel WordPerfect, then Star Office. I finally shelled out the cash and purchased Microsoft Office after being disappointed.

    1. Re:There's a reason by insac · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      And there are some other people that use Office simply because:

      1 - everyone else uses Office and they have to share documents.

      2 - they haven't heard of anything else.

      I don't know if these are just a small minority, but they exist..

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  2. Re:Most Unsecure OS? Yep, It's Linux by nmg · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So what would you say if the study concluded that Microsoft had more security vulnerabilities than Linux?

  3. Re:Where did this start? by phobix · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I may be totally oblivious to the answer but when and how did this "in soviet russia" shit start?

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