We need a Haiku exclusive office suite that has the ability to load a variety of formats.
We were waiting more than 10 years to see our beloved BeOS to become our Haiku, being created totally from the scratch. Now after all that un-sacrificed road of success some people talking about haiku´s business complied and they are about to make all the mistakes that were skipped on the begging.
I do agree that, all kinds of software are good for haiku, especially if they are free software. But native software should be in front line of our topics, applications that gets all the benefits of the OS architecture and it´s capabilities, not the other way around.
(Regardig the Java enviroment etc… for Haiku)
All the Java, .net platforms etc. were technology decisions that have been made to serve their creators limitations respectively.(if windows ware made right from the beggining the WinAPI would have been enough). Why do we want to be part of their limitations? In order for Haiku to succeed it needs brave and innovative decisions, Be Different… Otherwise what’s the point? We could stay with Windows and be happy…
By the way I am .Net developer 
Nice day to all of you!!!
@VERITAS
Of course we want native applications but that fastest way to get software on Haiku is through porting POSIX/Linux applications over. Writing an application from square one is much harder and slower than changing one to work on Haiku.
Also, ports will bring in more users and developers to Haiku. Eventually these developers will either make the ports more native to Haiku or create new Haiku applications.
Waiting for native Haiku software can take forever. Better to have something to use today and worry about native programs later on.
The point is that people want programs to run on an OS. Just having an OS with few applications won’t impress anybody or attract users or developers. You want to be able to do work with it. If you wait for native programs you’ll only get a handful of developers working on them and take very long time to release.
[quote=tonestone57]@VERITAS
Of course we want native applications but that fastest way to get software on Haiku is through porting POSIX/Linux applications over. Writing an application from square one is much harder and slower than changing one to work on Haiku.
Also, ports will bring in more users and developers to Haiku. Eventually these developers will either make the ports more native to Haiku or create new Haiku applications.
Waiting for native Haiku software can take forever. Better to have something to use today and worry about native programs later on.
The point is that people want programs to run on an OS. Just having an OS with few applications won’t impress anybody or attract users or developers. You want to be able to do work with it. If you wait for native programs you’ll only get a handful of developers working on them and take very long time to release.[/quote]
A OS is a application facilitator. Nothing more.