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Thanks, KOffice team, for your continued work
by Sum Yung Gai on Friday 23/Nov/2007, @10:27

Hello KOffice team,

I am currently a major user of OpenOffice.org, chiefly because of the MS Office file format compatibility issues that I have to deal with at work. Yes, I actually do like OO.o. However, at home, I've started to use KOffice here and there, and due to the shared library nature, it is far less memory-intensive than OO.o. I have run it on a 400MHz Power Mac G3 with 256MB DRAM, and it's actually quite functional (Kubuntu 6.06 "Dapper Drake") and snappier than I had expected. The PDF editing functionality of KWord already has proved handy at least a couple of times.

The OpenDocument support is, as far as I'm concerned, a major plus. It's taking a while for GNU/Linux to show lots of numbers on the desktop, sure. Note my choice of words: "show" lots of numbers. However, it's happening, and thus truly open standards like ODF will have to be paid attention to; the days of "Microsoft Word required" or "submit resume/proposal in MS Word format only" are numbered. Your work helps to further this goal.

Not that I care for MS Windows, but I've also come around to the decision that it was a good idea for KDE to support MS Windows with KDE 4. Here's why. If we can get folks to actually run KDE on MS Windows, then they'll have KOffice, among many other things (KTorrent, AmaroK, K3b, etc.). This is yet another vector to make it easier for folks to migrate to Free platforms like GNU/Linux and *BSD.

--SYG

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