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Re: Koffice2.0 and Qt4
by Robert Knight on Tuesday 31/Jan/2006, @15:56
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Yes, KOffice 2.0 will use Qt 4.
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Re: Koffice2.0 and Qt4
by Cyrille Berger on Tuesday 31/Jan/2006, @16:16
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If you want a full comparison of kexi to other db apps :
http://www.kexi-project.org/wiki/wikiview/index.php?KexiComparisons
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Re: Koffice2.0 and Qt4
by Niels on Wednesday 01/Feb/2006, @04:47
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Two small comments for that page:
>MS Access is far more mature and feature-rich,
>its development consumed dozens of man-years.
I would think hundreds or thousands of man-years.
>[...]introducing dependency for multimegabyte Java
>package and increasing its startup speed.
"speed" should be "time".
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Re: Koffice2.0 and Qt4
by Sebastian Sauer on Wednesday 01/Feb/2006, @15:42
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>>dozens of man-years.
>I would think hundreds or thousands of man-years.
Yeah. But we don't know for sure cause it's closed source :-)
Anyway. I guess dozens is Ok too cause it sounds very neutral (dozens*n).
>>increasing its startup speed.
>"speed" should be "time".
Fixed.
Thanks Niels!
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Re: Koffice2.0 and Qt4
by Marco Menardi on Wednesday 01/Feb/2006, @10:32
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> patent-free software
How can you tell it? Does it mean that no patents are registered for kexi? Ok, this is true.
Or does it mean that it does not infringe some software patents? This is false for sure. in USA there are about 300,000 sw patents, and every program that is not trivial is infringing some hundred (thousands?) of them. Even "hello world" displayed in a ctr screen infringes one, AFAIR.
Europe has not sw patents yet, even if they try again to intruduce them with the "eurpoean patent armonization" directive (Community patent), or something like that, but European Patent Office has already released around 30,000, so...
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/0,39020645,39248676,00.htm
keep an eye upon www.ffii.org for forecoming info, and read daily http://wiki.ffii.org/SwpatcninoEn for an updated source of info about sw patents.
Help fight software patents!
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Re: Koffice2.0 and Qt4
by aranea on Wednesday 01/Feb/2006, @10:49
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Thanks for community support. I think the most important issue now would be to try to organise an US movement.
See also this consultation
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/sol/notices/70fr75451.pdf
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Re: Koffice2.0 and Qt4
by Aaron J. Seigo on Tuesday 31/Jan/2006, @21:56
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> What are Kexi advantages/disadvantages over MS Access or FileMake
besides all the feature check lists, here are the ones that matter to me: it runs on Free Software operating systems so i'm not locked into to either Windows or MacOS (depending on which poison pill i choose to choke down). secondly, it *is* Free Software itself which is a much stronger guarantee for me to my data. and finally, it's a KDE app, which means it works, looks and integrates like i expect my apps to do on KDE. there's also a windows port of it out there =)
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