Zaire still won't connect

[Brett I. Holcomb]

Joel Hammer wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 05:18:49PM -0700, Net Llama! wrote:
>> On 07/13/03 17:00, Joel Hammer wrote:
>> Koffice hasn't gone anywhere.  Whether it sux is another story, but you
>> seem to be confusing staying power with usefulness.
> 
>           Koffice is still   being developed, I guess, but who
>           uses it? Who would suggest it is a useful piece of
>           software? This despite the fact that the koffice
>           people, at least a year ago, were hyping koffice
>           has a great piece of useful software.

Well, Koffice hasn't gone anywere - what Net Llama means is the same thing 
I mean - they haven't added much to it - it's a project that is really not 
worth much.  But that doesn't mean other options are.
 
>> You confuse Star Office with Open Office in the same way that you confuse
>> Netscape with Mozilla.  They started in the same place, but finish with
> 
>      OK. Get technical. The fact is, no consortium of volunteers
>      created open office. Same for mozilla. Both were gifts
>      from profit making corporations.  Maybe when corel goes
>      bankrupt (If they haven't already) they'll give wordperfect
>      and quattro pro to the opensource movement. That's my
>      only hope for a really great office suite in linux.

I think you'd better look at OO again.  Yes, it started with SO code but 
has been actively developed separately and is going down it's own path.  
Now OO != SO.
 
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