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Abiword: Support Expectations

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the something-to-think-about dept.

bockman writes "Abiword developers have put up a letter, explaining what they expect from their user community and what the community should (and should not) expect from a volunteer-based open source software project like theirs. A much needed reality-check in these times when a large number of non-developers have joined the Linux users world." This is a must read for anyone who uses any open source software.

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  1. Re:Huh? by dvdeug · · Score: 4, Flamebait

    > Sure. Much of the so-called "functionality" of modren commerical word processors is, for most users, nothing but bloat.

    Like what? The equation editor - I know engineering students who find that very useful for school work. Full Unicode functionality - aka support for 1/5 of the world's population's native languages? Multilingual spellchecking? What?

    >And if you need more, you don't want a word processor, you want a document preparation system

    Most people want a simple, WYSWIG, omnipurpose tool, so that's what they use, regardless of what computer geeks think is right.