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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. Re:Usefulness? by thedcm · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    GP

  2. Re:-1 flamebait by mmjb · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Having AbiWord, KOffice and OOo all competing with each other (and, to a lesser extent, with MS Office) is only good.


    A lesser extent? Depends whether you mean on a userbase or feature perspective.

    I think MS would be naive not to regard OSS suites as eventual direct competition for MSOffice - and therefore be influenced by that competition already. How much more should a word processor be able to do? MSOffice already does way too much for most people - and has done for at least a couple of versions.

    With no practical feature improvements to make on their own product, MS ought to be looking over their shoulder to see free word processors fast approaching to cull their cash cow.

    Now (as per Firefox vs MSIE, for example) to overcome market share...