perhaps because they see a growing market that isn't being serviced right now. they have less competition in their current space than they would on either mac or windows, so although their target audience is small they may end up making more sales. additionally, developing on open source platforms is probably cheaper. and finally, if their market expands they will have a head start on everyone else who attempts to enter that market after them.
in other words, they may be content to make _enough_ money right now and establish themselves as a software leader in a new and growing market.
ok, lets assume for a moment that they didn't release it under the BSD (even though they have signed a contract stating that they will).. there is still the GPL licensed version! and that version while Unix only (we would lose the windows version if it didn't go BSD) is exactly equivelent to their Qt Enterprise version feature for feature, line for line of code. the difference is only the license. so, We The Community would just take the GPL'd version. and that is a worst case scenario. more likely is that it would be released under the BSD license per the contract.
i'm guessing you haven't tried the version of KOffice in CVS? the one with the nearly complete rewrite of KWord? if you did you would find that not only are the apps becoming more robust, featurefull, and elegant but that the number and quality of filters is growing. this includes support for MS Word and Excel, Quatro Pro, Dia stencils, etc.. in fact an effort between a number of Free word processors is underway to build a set of filters, and this group includes the KWord developers.
between kword, kspread, kugar, kivio, kpresenter, kchart, kformula, krayon and killustrator i think that good progress is being made and a very comprehensive office solution is emerging.
KDE has exactly this functionality. you can have an "infinite-height" menu across the top (known as the Desktop Menu) and then as an additional option you can have each window put its menu bar in the Desktop Menu. please try things before spouting off...
what's really nice with KDE's way of doing it however is you have the choice to turn it off. or on. or off again. or on again...
It gives them experience in working with other programmers, lets them work on a project without implementing something from scratch, lets them do actual meaningful work and allows them to see other coding styles (both good and bad varieties).
It also inspires better work, I feel... since to get patches included they have to "be up to snuff".
<P>looks fine on my monitor; the menu is large, but that is mostly due to the fact that is has so much stuff to offer...
<P>> side effect automatically starts the screen <BR> > saver
<P>hm.. don't know what acid your 'puter is on.. that's just plain weird and deffinitely NOT happening on my system, which is (as i write this from Konqueror) running 1.92
<P>> new version you can't change the style of the <BR> > title bars any more
<P>try right clicking on them, tonto
<P>> know it's a beta, but it's *worse* than 1.91
<P>either you didn't get 1.92, or you never used 1.91.
heh... i'm part of a team developing linux/unix config tools right now and this is similar to the approach we have taken when it comes to the diversity of "things" to admin/config.. it only makes sense... every module in our software is a shared library, gets its own window and relies on the core client to actually communicate to the machine(s) (file i/o, networking, etc) =)
our software will be out (GPL'd of course!) first week of march... company: Mount Linux... software is currently code named olympus (because we developers can't come up with a better one at the moment.. too busy having fun coding the damn thing)
right now the "code name" is olympus... the company's name is Mount Linux... so you can probably see the reason for the name @;-)
here's a few more teasers on the software: its 100% modular, can admin more than one machine at once, and works w/Linux now and will be ported (which is trivial) to *BSD, AIX, Solaris, etc... the front end will also be ported to windows...
if you are interested in finding out more or getting involved in the development of what is the next generation in Linux/Unix config/admin tools, drop me a line at aseigo@mountlinux.com
The organization i work with/for/own a slice of is actually in the process of creating such a tool that will do all that speare is asking for and then a whole lot more. its simple, secure, graphical, network aware and... well... there is so much to say about it that you may as well just wait till its out... it will be GPLed and the release is slated for the first week of march (we have 5 full time developers working on it). watch yer freshmeat =)
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perhaps because they see a growing market that isn't being serviced right now. they have less competition in their current space than they would on either mac or windows, so although their target audience is small they may end up making more sales. additionally, developing on open source platforms is probably cheaper. and finally, if their market expands they will have a head start on everyone else who attempts to enter that market after them. in other words, they may be content to make _enough_ money right now and establish themselves as a software leader in a new and growing market.
tex exporting is already supported in a few koffice apps, including KWord. they beat you to it =)
ok, lets assume for a moment that they didn't release it under the BSD (even though they have signed a contract stating that they will) .. there is still the GPL licensed version! and that version while Unix only (we would lose the windows version if it didn't go BSD) is exactly equivelent to their Qt Enterprise version feature for feature, line for line of code. the difference is only the license. so, We The Community would just take the GPL'd version. and that is a worst case scenario. more likely is that it would be released under the BSD license per the contract.
i'm guessing you haven't tried the version of KOffice in CVS? the one with the nearly complete rewrite of KWord? if you did you would find that not only are the apps becoming more robust, featurefull, and elegant but that the number and quality of filters is growing. this includes support for MS Word and Excel, Quatro Pro, Dia stencils, etc.. in fact an effort between a number of Free word processors is underway to build a set of filters, and this group includes the KWord developers.
between kword, kspread, kugar, kivio, kpresenter, kchart, kformula, krayon and killustrator i think that good progress is being made and a very comprehensive office solution is emerging.
what's really nice with KDE's way of doing it however is you have the choice to turn it off. or on. or off again. or on again...
It gives them experience in working with other programmers, lets them work on a project without implementing something from scratch, lets them do actual meaningful work and allows them to see other coding styles (both good and bad varieties).
It also inspires better work, I feel... since to get patches included they have to "be up to snuff".
> Clicking on the 'K' menu brings up a menu so
> large that it won't fit on the screen,
<P>looks fine on my monitor; the menu is large, but that is mostly due to the fact that is has so much stuff to offer...
<P>> side effect automatically starts the screen <BR>
> saver
<P>hm.. don't know what acid your 'puter is on.. that's just plain weird and deffinitely NOT happening on my system, which is (as i write this from Konqueror) running 1.92
<P>> new version you can't change the style of the <BR>
> title bars any more
<P>try right clicking on them, tonto
<P>> know it's a beta, but it's *worse* than 1.91
<P>either you didn't get 1.92, or you never used 1.91.
<P>get a clue
any gui tool in unix (imho) should always allow the user to hand edit the file in question if they want to... there is not reason not to, really...
also, conventions must be kept to and prior modifcations/changes should be respected and held to.
our software will be out (GPL'd of course!) first week of march... company: Mount Linux... software is currently code named olympus (because we developers can't come up with a better one at the moment.. too busy having fun coding the damn thing)
here's a few more teasers on the software: its 100% modular, can admin more than one machine at once, and works w/Linux now and will be ported (which is trivial) to *BSD, AIX, Solaris, etc... the front end will also be ported to windows...
if you are interested in finding out more or getting involved in the development of what is the next generation in Linux/Unix config/admin tools, drop me a line at aseigo@mountlinux.com
The organization i work with/for/own a slice of is actually in the process of creating such a tool that will do all that speare is asking for and then a whole lot more. its simple, secure, graphical, network aware and... well... there is so much to say about it that you may as well just wait till its out... it will be GPLed and the release is slated for the first week of march (we have 5 full time developers working on it). watch yer freshmeat =)