“MandrakeSoft… will finance David Faure, KDE-core-developer to
work for the KOffice and KDE projects.”
“According to Gaël Duval, co-founder of Mandrakesoft,
“Mandrake owes a lot of its success to KDE and the Free Software
movement. We are very happy to help back and contribute to the
enhancement of development…”
“… KOffice is an integrated office suite based on the KDE
libraries. It currently includes an enhanced wordprocessor with
desktop publishing functionality , a spreadsheet, a presentation
application, a vector drawing program, a diag ram program, a
formula editor and an image viewer. KOffice makes use of the most
advanced Object Model in the OSS world.”
“KDE is a collaborative project by hundreds of developers
worldwide to create a sophisticated, customizable and stable
desktop environment employing a network-transparent, intuitive user
interface.”