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Re: Konqueror Gets Activ(eX)ated
by Jon on Tuesday 10/Jul/2001, @05:53
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You seem to dislike the idea of any closed source programs running in Linux. Well, you're in the minority.
You said:
Microsoft Office has a bunch of users, too. Would you make a thrilled post to dot.kde.org if someone ported the latest MS Office run under KDE, via wine? Would you call it the removal of a great obstacle, and dismissed KOffice as you've dismissed KParts here?
I say:
I would love it if Microsoft Office (97 in my case) ran absolutely flawlessly under Linux (it runs off and on under Wine, but it would be lovely to have a native Linux port). Office is one of the jewels in the Microsoft crown, and my favorite word processor... although my favorite version was Word 2 (I've got the 4 floppies it came on sitting around somewhere :).
However, I still find KOffice very exciting, not because it will replease Microsoft Office, but because it increases choice, variety and competitiveness.
No-one has made any attack, actual or implied, on KParts. After all your long and rambling posts, I'm still not sure why you think there has been. Supporting ActiveX is exactly the same (and implemented in a similar, if more complicated way), to supporting closed Netscape plugins -- do you think that *they* are a threat to KParts as well? |
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