Re: What is GNOME office?

[Cody Russell <bratsche gnome org>]

Bart,

My apologies; I removed the wrong "So-and-so wrote:" line. =)

> Hi Cody,
> 
> You accidentally put my name about that quote.  The point of my message just now was
> that I don't agree with the excerpted sentence below.    I agree with you.
> 
> Bart
> 
> Cody Russell wrote:
> 
> > > On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 09:58:34PM -0800, Bart Decrem wrote:
> > >
> > > Surely "what is GNOME Office" should be "all GNOME applications that do
> > > officey things". If we have more than one candidate for a particular role,
> > > then include them all. Choice is good (particularly when they all interoperate)!
> >
> > I feel like it is not a bad thing at all to have the GNOME Project
> > or the GNOME Foundation endorse a certain application as the
> > 'official' application for GNOME Office.  To do otherwise would
> > be confusing for users, and this whole project is about making
> > UNIX more usable, not about pleasing every programmer in the
> > world by including his application in the office suite.
> >
> > Furthermore, the development of GNOME Office may likely be
> > much faster.  Would-be contributors would not know which
> > projects to contribute to otherwise.  We would be discouraging
> > spreading hackers across different projects that have the same
> > goals in mind.
> >
> > Cody
> >
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