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No Abiword For Mac?

Posted by Hemos on from the the-end-of-abiword-for-mac dept.

aliya writes "With Abiword's version 1.90 coming out, their cocoa developer has announced that he will no longer work on a Mac version of the software because he doesn't want to support the company which treated him so poorly. There is a still a somewhat-supported X11 version available, though it is not kept current, and it appears that Abiword will join the abundant ranks of 'almost supported' word processors for Mac OS X."

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  1. Re:Killer App? Just How Much Does This Matter? by andy2kxp · · Score: 4, Informative

    actually Konqueror is not based on mozilla, although it's goal is the same, a standards-compliant web browser, it uses it's own lighter-weight engine called kHTML which is also used in Apple's Safari.

  2. Re:this is why I'm self-employed by larry+bagina · · Score: 2, Informative

    AppleWorks is apple branded, though most definitely not along the lines of Keynote.

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  3. The killer app. Of course! by Chucker23N · · Score: 3, Informative

    Excuse me? I've given AbiWord a try once. It was fast, really fast. And simple. It had the most important features of those you'd expect from a word processing app. And that is all there is to it. There are no special features. There is no interface consistency to anything - not to Aqua, not to KDE, not to GNOME, not to Windows, or even Motif. No innovation.

    It is a simple word processing app, and though a Cocoa interface would have been interesting, it wouldn't have been a miracle. And not a "killer app", either.

    1. Re:The killer app. Of course! by seann · · Score: 2, Informative

      To reply instead of moderate.

      A cocoa interface is 10x differnt than a X11 port.

      For example the ability to run the program without an x server.

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  4. Just because you do a job... by MoneyT · · Score: 2, Informative

    doesn't mean you do it well.

    Probation period = we test you out and see if we like what you bring to our company.

    Guess they didn't like him.

    And of course, instead of saying "Screw apple, I don't need them" turning arround, writing abiword PPC and turning it into an international best program, he's just going to cancel it.

    Another question. I'm going to assume for the moment that AbiWord is an opensource program. So how could his PORT of the program be his killer app?

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  5. I would have installed AbiWord... by thatguywhoiam · · Score: 3, Informative
    ... but TextEdit, which has been reincarnated from its previous feeble form (known as SimpleText), brandishing its new spell checking and PDF-handling and non-80k-limit... threatened to beat the crap out of any incumbent word processors I dared install.

    And you know what? I believed it.

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