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KOffice 1.6 Released
ingwa writes "The KOffice team today released version 1.6 of its office suite. Among other things, this release contains an improved Krita which can now handle color spaces like CMYK. This makes it the only free image editor that can be used in professional pre-press work. Together with the other improvements, this release probably makes it the best free image editor in the world. The release also contains improvements in Kexi, the MS Access like database application, and a new scripting framework which makes it extremely simple to script applications that handle OpenDocument data. With this release KOffice also surpasses OpenOffice.org in some ways, e.g. it handles over 70% of the W3C MathML test suite while Openoffice.org only handles 22%. See the KOffice homepage for more information."
"this release probably makes it the best free image editor in the world"
"With this release KOffice also surpasses OpenOffice.org in some ways, e.g. it handles over 70% of the W3C MathML test suite while Openoffice.org only handles 22%. See the KOffice homepage for more information."
Does anyone smell a marketing rat trying to push new software? Rather interesting post on the heals of post on the GIMP graphics subsystem.
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Not quite.
OpenOffice.org is released under the LGPL, which allows people to steal the hard work put in by their contributors in order to make closed-source forks (strictly, the source for the application as a whole may be Closed but the source for any LGPL parts must remain Open). KOffice is released under the full-on, take-no-prisoners GPL, which insists for every fork to be Open Source.
It's possible that using part of OpenOffice.org in KOffice might allow closed-source derivatives of KOffice.
Even if that weren't the case, OpenOffice.org is so badly coded as to require rewriting from scratch before it is used for anything.
Je fume. Tu fumes. Nous fûmes!
Yay!! Another half-baked, not-ready-for-primetime piece of OSS software!! Yippee!! Where do I sign up?!!
Seriously, OSS developers need to create a real alternative to non-free products if they really want to gain converts. And, "It isn't MS." doesn't cut it in the real world. Most people just want their software to work and don't have the motivation of an anti-MS agenda to fuel the learning process that is required to jump from a fully-baked piece of software to one that isn't.