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Story: OpenOffice developers clear Visual Studio licensing hurdle

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While the title is poorly chosen and sensationalist, the writer does have a point. This facet of the point will evapourate when KDevelop finishes going native as part of the KDE on Win32 project (http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/qt3-win32/)

Since this is Microsoft's own environment one would expect their build tools to be better there, but an important part of FOSS evangelism is showing how good our apps are "in their own home".

If a user can be shifted to 100% FOSS apps in an environment they're comfortable with, then switching environments (to Linux or FreeBSD, say) is almost painless. Use a familiar-looking theme like Plastik and you're away.

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