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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."
The "it's good enough" mentality will not result in a successful office productivity package.
Why not? It resulted in a successful OS, Windows.
Or what I call the worst boot virus ever.
Open office is the worst office suite I have ever used, and I am not even kidding. Any time spent working on open office is wasted unless it is spent chopping out useless code, and optimizing various slow processes. Also the default look of pages needs to be more beautiful, and the font's need a lot of work. I would always rather use KOffice than open office. The only thing open office is useful for is busting open that random .doc document that shows up in your inbox. Otherwise it is a slow, bloated, disgusting piece of shit, that makes linux feel and behave as if broken when trying to accomplish any useful word processing.
Oh, you're a Mac user. That explains a lot. I've never seen a group more willing to bend over and grab their ankles. I always thought you wished it was Steve Jobs banging your backside when it's really Bill Gates, but you seem to understand. Hmm, maybe it's the other way around?
In your defense, I will say that MacOS Office 2001 is far better than Windows Office 2000: No viruses, XP style interface w/o the huge resource suck. But then Office.X screwed up--WTF happened to Outlook, & what's this half-assed Outlook Express wannabe?
Also, you fail to mention ClarisWorks/AppleWorks, which is wierd. That's actually the predecessor to Gobe, so I would think you'd at least compare those two so as to be more on-topic.