On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Shaul Karl wrote:
> 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?
Under Linux, AbiWord is part of the (unofficial) Gnome suite, together
with Gnumeric the spreadsheet. No equivalent for PowerPoint. For
MS-Access substitute, you'll have to look for a visual GUI which works
with MySQL or PostgresSQL.
> 2) Does AbiWord works more or less flawlessly under every OS that OO is
> working under?
I have used it under MS-Windows 2000, while it (AbiWord) was still being
tested. Meanwhile they fixed the BiDi bugs which I reported on this
platform. Nowadays I use it only under Linux.
> 3) Can AbiWord read/write the same formats as OO?
IIRC, they added OO import/export filter to AbiWord.
> 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.
AbiWord was designed right from the start to be multi-platform.
> 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.
Fair enough. Like a boxing match without gloves, but with strict
observance of all other laws. :-)
--- Omer
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