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by mootothemax 5923 days ago
You know what's even more annoying? The pool of talented developers working on two office suites for Linux! So, rather than everybody working on an MS Office killer, we have crappy OpenOffice and an even craffier KOffice both competing against each other for the title of who's crappiest. Grr!
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jrockway 5923 days ago
Yeah, the world would be a much better place if everyone did exactly what I told them to.

For me, anyway...

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mootothemax 5923 days ago
Heh, sometimes I think that the only thing OSS really needs for mainstream success is a dictator ;)
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qw 5923 days ago
The most annoying part is that their functionality is tightly woven in with the rest of their application. Why would we need separate Word/Excel parsers? Couldn't you just separate common functionality to a shared library...

It's the GIMP problem all over again. If they would just separate each functionality into components, it would make it easier for others to create "shells".

I see potential for a lot of improvement in the GIMP and Photoshop interfaces, and someone with better design skills than me could potentially make a Photoshop-killer.

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