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Why 2.0
by KDE User on Tuesday 06/Jun/2006, @02:13

Why not name it something more glorious?

Like Koffice 2000, or Koffice 4 (KDE 4). Koffice XP. :-))

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Re: Why 2.0
by Pingwing on Tuesday 06/Jun/2006, @02:35

Yeah, why not call it KDE Power Office 3000 Professional Plus, Xtreme Edition?

Maybe because in the free software world we don't care so much about cool names (except for the K-thing) and marketing blah-blah. We do care about good software.

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Re: Why 2.0
by KDE User on Tuesday 06/Jun/2006, @04:50

> we don't care so much about cool names ...

> ... (except for the K-thing)

Hehe :-)

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Re: Why 2.0
by PC Squad on Wednesday 07/Jun/2006, @07:51

> Maybe because in the free software world we don't care so much about cool
> names

Hm. plasma? solid? phonon? akonadi? pigment? flake? Those things used to be called "KDE Multimedia" or "PIM Storage Layer". Parts of KDE definately have started caring about cool names. I think that's good.

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Re: Why 2.0
by Allan on Tuesday 13/Jun/2006, @11:17

KDE PO000PP XtremeE?

Sounds good

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Re: Why 2.0
by Martin on Tuesday 06/Jun/2006, @09:05

All those strange versions dont work and are bad marketing. People will not know if this is a new version or not. There are only a few worldwide brands (like Microsoft) that can afford to do this because a new release is announced everywhere in the media. And then the gap between versions must be large enough.
Look up Dreamweaver in Wikipedia. You will find the version history at the bottom. My boss recently refused to buy Dreamweaver 8 at first because he thought we have already Dreamweaver MX 2004 which is newer. It's not. Did you expect that? I didnt until I looked it up on Wikipedia. Meaningless to say you will find nothing about this on their Homepage. If you already need an encyclopedia to look up which product is newer your marketing strategy is definitely flawed.

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Re: Why 2.0
by Super-Root on Wednesday 07/Jun/2006, @19:46

Why not call it "KO Round 2" ;)

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Re: Why 2.0
by bb on Wednesday 14/Jun/2006, @06:21

K O is a bad portuguese name. This is a brazilian slang that means "fake" or "lie" and also we have a genital lubrificant for maleXmale with this name at the drugstores.

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Re: Why 2.0
by josel on Friday 09/Jun/2006, @14:56

D'ont push it or someone will have the wonderfull idea to name it Koffice2 version 1,0. If i recall correctly this was schema was to be used on KDE2 until users protested.

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