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Re: MS Windows version?
by Martin Galpin on Tuesday 06/Jul/2004, @06:47

Whilst many do write software exclusively for free operating systems for political reasons, I don't accept your analogy.

Personally, I believe in the free operating system, and I would therefore hope that efforts be directed to furthering this cause, rather than developing for both. However, it's sometimes a pragmatic decision not to go cross-platform: for design choices, performance reasons, and so-on. I suspect all of the Unix-only development (such as KDE), will eventually further the cause of the entire OS, it's just going to take longer; you have to evangelise the entire OS rather than individual applications.

Personally, I do use OpenOffice.Org, but it's for no other reason than document compatiability. I support the standardisation of OASIS as an open document format for all free office suites (OOo, KOffice, Abiword...), and would hope thateven some proprietary vendors were to interoperate rather than build themselves their own little corner. Does anyone know is there is any progress on that?

Finally, will OASIS become (my apoligies if I'm behind the times) the default KOffice document format(s)?

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Re: MS Windows version?
by James O on Tuesday 06/Jul/2004, @07:08

Yes: http://dot.kde.org/1061919133/

Which is great, because that means Windows users will be able to edit my files. Of course, if I only want them to read my files, I send them as PDFs.

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