Re: [Inkscape-devel] Joining GNOME Office

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> One area I hope Gnome Office establishes a solid, well researched
> strategy is with Open Office (and perhaps also with KOffice).
> Despite the various things people dislike about OOo, it has a definite
> lead in many areas, which means that there is non-trivial risk to
> projects that seek to compete head-to-head with it.
>

Well we're betting we can overtake OOo in quite a few areas over the next
year as they struggle with their cumbersome code-base. Certainly
AbiWord-2.2 and Gnumeric-2.0 will establish significant leads in a number
of key features, in addition to the leads we already have.

> Taking off my Inkscape hat and putting on my OSDL hat, a piece of advice
> I can share - From what I've been seeing and hearing in relation to
> OSDL's Desktop Initiative efforts, 2004 is likely going to see some
> strong pressures towards consolodation at the desktop level.  It sounds
> like Freedesktop is going to play a key role in this, which is why I'd
> strongly suggest building a very good relationship with them.
>

What does this mean? If it means what I think it means I can't see how
more pressure could be applied than I already feel to "join the winning
team".

Frankly the pressure just motivates me to work harder om AbiWord and Gnome
Office.

OO.o falls way short of my vision of a Productivity Suite could be.

I, and I suspect we all in Gnome Office, have nothing against working with
F.D.O. We've benefitted greatly already from their work. (Particularly
fontconfig and XFT2).

Cheers,

Martin




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