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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. Sure by slashflood · · Score: 5, Funny

    [...] integrated Grammar Checker. We can can do this because [...]

    :-)

    1. Re:Sure by Surt · · Score: 4, Funny

      They do it by dancing the can can, I don't understand your problem with this claim? I mean sure, you have to get the DDR keyboard mod to do your coding, but those aren't so expensive as to make this claim implausible.

      --
      "Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking
  2. Re:Usefulness? by God'sDuck · · Score: 5, Funny

    Okay then, translate "The window has been broken" into active voice.

    "Windows is broken."