On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 03:51:55PM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: > A completely different option, for those who want Hebrew wordprocessor > under Linux: AbiWord. > > It is lightweight yet on its way to become very powerful wordprocessor. >
I am not familiar with AbiWord. 1) Did you mention Hebrew _wordprocessor_ because AbiWord does not have the other capabilities of an MS Office suite? 2) Does AbiWord works more or less flawlessly under every OS that OO is working under? 3) Can AbiWord read/write the same formats as OO? Even if AbiWord fully passes these questions, I believe it is not an option as far as MOF is concerned. The reason for this is that MOF is probably looking for some big names like IBM and Sun to stand behind the office suite. What effort is required, if at all, to take the _same_ source code for Mozilla or KDE or Gnome or AbiWord and build it under every MS Windows version? This, plus the requirement for the involvements of the big names, might explain a great deal of YBA building concerns. Do note that I don't consider this message to be off topic. On the contrary. I believe most or even all members agree that open standards and FOSS are on topic; And these are essentially the issues here. -- "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." -- George Bernard Shaw (sent by shaulk @ actcom . net . il) ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
