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Is it a joke ?
by azerty man on Thursday 30/Aug/2001, @14:24

Have a look at the screenshots on Hancom website.
The last ones seem to be Quanta+ and Kivio under winXP ?!!
WebBuilder is Quanta+ and Painter is Kivio.
Have they ever read the GPL ?

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Re: Is it a joke ?
by Craig on Thursday 30/Aug/2001, @14:33

Sounds like you need to read the gpl friend. theKomapny owns the code and can licence it anyway they want.

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Re: Is it a joke ?
by azerty man on Thursday 30/Aug/2001, @14:42

Does the Kompany owns Quanta code ?
what is the Xp screenshot, a port of qt ?
I don't want to blame this product, I think this is really a good news but I would like to be sure that it is not vaporware or something.
Thanks

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Re: Is it a joke ?
by Craig on Thursday 30/Aug/2001, @14:45

Yes they own the code and of course its not vapor ware.

Craig

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Re: Is it a joke ?
by not me on Thursday 30/Aug/2001, @15:24

>Does the Kompany owns Quanta code ?

Quanta used to be Free but some of the developers decided to go commercial with it and relicensed it. I guess theKompany was the company that got it.

>what is the Xp screenshot, a port of qt ?

QT has always been available for Windows, and won't require any porting to work under XP. Any 100% QT-native program (such as these office programs) will work on any of QT's platforms with a simple recompile (theoretically).

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Re: Is it a joke ?
by Philippe Fremy on Friday 31/Aug/2001, @00:55

> Any 100% QT-native program (such as these office programs) will work on any of QT's
> platforms with a simple recompile (theoretically).

And practically!

As a Qt-windows licence holder, I confirm this. It took 1 day to make a 30000 lines unix Qt program compile under windows, and one week to make it link :-), because we were not experienced with windows lib/dll stuff. Now, it would link the same day it compiles.

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Re: Is it a joke ?
by Kevin Puetz on Friday 31/Aug/2001, @07:30

I'm interested in this, what build setup were you using?

I'm trying to figure out what I can use as a build environment that will work on both windows and unix with QT apps, and I'm getting the impression that (barring building with cygwin/gcc) autoconf doesn't do this very well? I'd love to be wrong :-)

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Re: Is it a joke ?
by Dave Marotti on Friday 31/Aug/2001, @11:51

It's no joke. It's a Qt based program (Kivio) so ports to other OS's are no longer just a thought.

-dave
(kivio developer)

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Re: Is it a joke ?
by Guy Smith on Saturday 01/Sep/2001, @16:40

I was working the Hancom booth during the show. We had HancomSheet running on an iPaq -- handheld. Hancom told me the port took them about four hours.

Believe it -- a robust multi-platform office is on the way. As I was telling the press representatives "HancomOffice 2.0 is the camel's nose in the Microsoft tent."

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Re: Is it a joke ?
by jasper on Thursday 30/Aug/2001, @14:34

they are the copyrightholders. therefore they can rerelease it under a other license.

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Re: Is it a joke ?
by Brad C on Thursday 30/Aug/2001, @15:29

Yes they are...did you not read above...
thekompany is adding kivio, rekall, and quanta+
to hancom office.

no Painter is not Kivio...
Envision is Kivio...which is actaully a pretty cool name for it.

and yes...that does *APPREAR* to be kivio(envision) running under XP.

Personally I think releasing cross platform applications is a good idea. It gets people to use applications on familiar terms, then they realize, hey these apps are native linux apps! and makes us even more appealing.

the world is never going to be a one operating system world...the best way to go about it is to make yourself compatible with a lot of them. Kind of like Opera.

This has been thekompany's plan for a while now...to release their apps on both linux and windows. Data Architect is already released on both from the beginning.

just my $.02
http://arctic-circle.wso.net

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