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Re: Multiplatform Support
by kwilliam on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @07:46

We just need to get Google to pitch in a few bucks, like they did to get Photoshop working in Wine. Although I reckon Google probably uses Google Docs internally. :-(

Yeah, I'd pitch in $10 to help hire a Microsoft compatibility guy for KOffice. I don't currently use KOffice, but from the screenshots, I'd like to. OpenOffice is just a Word 2003 clone, whereas KOffice appears to have some fresh ideas.

But now technically, all that's needed is a perfect .doc to .odf (and vice versa) converter right? Then as long as KOffice supported .odf perfectly*, an existing third party library could be used to translate between .odf and .doc. Such converters (albeit not perfect ones) already exist, right?

*and I know I'm using the word perfectly a little liberally here. Even OpenOffice interprets some ODF incorrectly apparently, according to the standard.

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Re: Multiplatform Support
by Hello on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @09:57

Me too!!

I'd pitch in $10 for full MS-Office compatibility (including Excel Macros)
and I'll pitch in another $20 for more Compositioning (compiz fusion style Kwin) eye candy. The daily office grind is just too bland without it.
And $50 for full Direct X support for games. Hey a worker bee has to have fun sometime as well? Right?

So that would be $80 bugs towards open source development right there. :)
Better than spending $300 on Vista, or $200 per machine to get back to Windows XP.

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Re: Multiplatform Support
by Oscar on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @13:55

http://www.cofundos.org/

Dunno how it works but it seems to be what you're talking about.

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