On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 05:00:54PM +0100, Klas Lindberg wrote: > My two cents on Abi vs OpenOffice: > I may be very wrong about this, but as I've come to understand is, Abi is > working specificly with providing the GNOME Office with a portable word > processor component. OpenOffice (or rather Sun, maybe?) is more concerned > with the creation of a full office suite that is much less tied to a > specific platform -- one that could happily replace installed Star Offices > in a few years. You are so very terribly wrong! While beeing able to provide GNOME a word processing component is a neat idea, it is not something for the near future. Currently, AbiWord is, I believe, by FAR the word processor which is available in the larger number of platforms. Here is a short list: beos, mac, qnx, unix, win. Bear in mind that by unix, you should really read: any unix that can compile (currently at least: linux, bsd, solaris, and a couple other can have a functional word processor). AbiWord can't be said as "tied to a specific platform", specially since it's got this policy of including the same set of features on all platforms in each release (and preferably release for all supported platforms at once). > In my view an office suite should be much like any distribution. Debian > has its distribution of selected Linux stuff, Helix has its distribution > of selected GNOME stuff, and GNOME Office should have its distribution of > selected office components. yup. hugs, rms -- + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Ghandi + So let's do it...?
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