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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. 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.

  3. 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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