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Germany-funded Linux software arriving
Feb. 03, 2003

The German government has funded the Kroupware project, with improvements released as part of KDE 3.1 according to this report from Stephen Shankland at CNET . . .

"The software comes from the Kroupware project, bankrolled by the German government to build open-source software that can substitute for Microsoft's Exchange and Outlook. Though the first elements have appeared in the new KDE 3.1 software, more will arrive in 3.2 later this year, said Andreas Pour, president of the KDE League . . . "

"KDE had hoped to include the Kroupware improvements in 3.1, which originally was scheduled to ship in November, but the programmers decided instead to stop adding features and to pore through the code for security vulnerabilities, Pour said. "There was a full security audit done of most of the code," he said . . . "


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