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AbiWord beats OpenOffice to a Grammar Checker

Posted by Hemos on from the hats-off dept.

msevior writes "The recently released AbiWord-2.4 (downloads for Linux, OSX and Windows here ) is the first Free Word Processor to offer an integrated Grammar Checker. We can can do this because we're a pure GPL'd application and so can easily collaborate with other Freely licensed applications like link-grammar, gtkmathview and itex2mml which provide AbiWord-2.4 with a superb Latex-based Math feature. Sun's license requirements for OpenOffice.Org make it much more difficult for such collaborations to occur."

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  1. Two ways of looking at it by Moonwick · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Sun's license requirements for OpenOffice.Org make it much more difficult for such collaborations to occur.

    Or, you know, it could be AbiWord's license requirements that make it so difficult.

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  2. This is a perfect example... by ninja_assault_kitten · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    of what you get with most OSS projects. Technology that's about 3-4 years behind Microsoft.