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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."
BSD is the only way to go for real freedom!
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The GPL is good. In real life, the GPL is a recipe for failure.
Posted by timothy on Saturday December 07, @05:27PM
I t was designed for the BeOS, which was itself fast, lightweight and clean, so what did you expect?
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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on Saturday December 07, @05:38PM (#4834587)
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OK, neither were fully-featured but they did everything 75% of people would ever need.
-Mark
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Can you not read english??
(even if it means no open sourcing)
Hello. Earth to Whoever is trolling. Wake the fuck up.
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.
Just what the world needs, another open source project. Open sourcers love to design and build, but not put on the finishing touches. Witness Mozzilla. Once it hit 1.0, instead of optimizing it and improving it, the dumb bastards forked it into Phoenix - Oh, we need a faster browser. 10 bucks when Phoenix hits 1.0 another fork. This is where proprietary companies shine. Boss man yells to coders clean up the fucking ui and document things, put in help, etc. The things that coders hate doing. The piddly shit they think their brains are too good for. Well, keep thinking that and watch MS own the market.
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.
I post what's in my ass. If this upsets people on occasion, then they regard me as a "troll". But more often than not, my comments are interesting or informative and usually a bit funny, too.
My goal is to make people angry. Combining trolling with humor has great benefits.
I always mean to offend anyone, but every once in awhile it doesn't happen because I tend to be very stupid and retarded
I am always open to new ideas and enjoy constructive criticism, but blatant name-calling isn't very nice.
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