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Re: Joining force with openOffice
by Birdy on Thursday 28/Feb/2008, @14:27

1.) I don't think OOo is improving fast. They have to invest huge efforts to clean up the code and architecture (there a lot of work left for several years). And to be honest, I didn't see a lot of real improvements from 2.1 to 2.3 (and even the upcoming 2.4).

2.) Imagine the few KOffice developers helping the huge OOo team. That wouldn't make a lot of difference for OOo. Especially as the KOffice's developers expertise is in slihgtly differnent topics.

3.) KOffice has a extremely nice basis. Just a little bit more development power, and it would show up as a nicely polished Office package.

4.) It's very nice to have several different office packages. They can serve different purposes and thus have differnet focus/strengthes/GUI (does OOo have something like Krita, KPlato or Kivio?). And having different bases helps to detect defects (like ODF support in the past in OOo an KOffice). Imagine a piece of software that has no competition - progress stalls!

To sum it up: If KOffice would "join" OOo, it would mean very very little gain, but a big loss.

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