Open source GoBe?

[PeterW]

Sorry if this obvious or answered before. I searched the web, HaikuDepot and this forum. But still I don’t know: Is there an open source GoBe office suite for Haiku?

[BlueSky]

@PeterW

Is there an open source GoBe office suite for Haiku?

No.
Should be quite easy to find all over the forum. This has been discussed several times in the past.
A quick search on the forum gets plenty of results, including these ones:

Gobe Productive 2.0.x source code?

I know this subject has been discussed in the past, but… I was curious about the current situation concerning the Gobe Productive 2.0.x source code and are any of the x-Gobe engineers keeping up with the happenings of the Haiku project? It would ge great to get the Gobe Productive 2.0.x source code. I realize that probably some of the code is enamored with some licensed code (via libraries, etc…) not written by the Gobe guys that would have to be flushed out, but it would be great to get that…

GoBe Productive on Haiku

From the OSnews website: The State of Applications On Haiku AndrewZ said: “GOBEProductive - Do I have a quote? No. Have I spoken with GOBE Software and a Sr. Haiku developer? Yes. GP is not open sourced but there is a possibility of a Haiku port. I’m hoping this will inspire some positive discussion and a new efforts here.” koki said: "In May 2008, when I was still heavily involved with the Haiku project, I had discussions with Bruce Hammond of Gobe Software that lead to a concrete offer fro…

[ArDrakho]

As much as I would like to buy and upgrade it to capabilities that we generally expect from productivity suite today, I do not believe the effort should be undertaken.

The code base is probably a very big mess, from what I have previously read about other contempory software projects. Even it is very clean and corporate knowledge notes and comments were there, what kind of time it would take to piecemeal it in work projects and deliver something close to Office 2025? That is assuming all the code is C++.

Not achievable…better off waiting for some capitalist willing to fund the software and also invest into the Haiku project so that we have many more programmers working on what we love. Yeah…I know it is a nice dream, but it is a nice one to have.

[nipos]

The problem is that the old BeOS-specific code is entirely lost,even the original developers don’t have it anymore.
If the code was there,I’m sure there would be people modernizing it,like it happened with many other apps originating from BeOS.
Yes,it would be a lot of work,but a native office suite would be a huge thing for Haiku.
I’d happily contribute if that was possible.
Anyway,it’s not going to happen unfortunately,there have been so many talks about it already without results.

[phoudoin]

Well, for a Haiku native office suite, at least one could improve on the existing office native apps.
Which is, well, mostly Sum-It.
Which will welcome any coder love for sure:

https://depot.haiku-os.org/#!/pkg/sum_it/haikuports/haikuports_x86_64/0/2beta/-/-/8/x86_64

[shaka444]

If Office applications are written the Haiku/BeOS way, they don’t have to be a “Suite”. Message passing between applications is what we do best. We basically need a well written native word processor. We have spreadsheets, graphics and we essentially ARE a database