I beleive it is GPL'd, but aren't sure of the present status of it... see the homepage for it... I wonder if there are any other Open Source ERP projects out there...
So why is it that MS Word competitors struggle so much in importing and exporting.DOC documents? MS doesn't actually release new versions of Word _that_ often, and if the format is well-documented, implementing readers and writers for it shouldn't be as hard as it appears... Of course, not having looked into it myself, I don't understand the issues fully here, and an ugly, ambiguous format would certainly make life difficult... rr
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So why is it that MS Word competitors struggle so much in importing and exporting .DOC documents? MS doesn't actually release new versions of Word _that_ often, and if the format is well-documented, implementing readers and writers for it shouldn't be as hard as it appears... Of course, not having looked into it myself, I don't understand the issues fully here, and an ugly, ambiguous format would certainly make life difficult... rr