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Story: OpenOffice developers clear Visual Studio licensing hurdle

Posted by: Leon Brooks (Monday 14 February 2005, 11:54 PM)

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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Story: OpenOffice developers clear Visual Studio licensing hurdle

Ingrid's back! For 10 points, who can tell me what... Anonymous
Errr... how is this article "anti-Linux"? In... Jeff Lewis
So why do so many people use .Net? They must... Richard
While the title is poorly chosen and sensationalis... Leon Brooks

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