First, let me say to everyone who decided to give this discussion a political bent, "Go Fuck Off!"
Second, Microsoft Office supports Hebrew brilliantly well. Much of the development for left-to-right language support for Microsoft apps is done in Haifa.
I've followed OO Hebrew support for a number of years and it never could compete with Microsoft Office. Two years ago, after the IDF signed a $125 million deal with Microsoft, the Israeli Ministry of Finance finally got fed up. The government in general, with MOF backing, decided to take some of our many, many post bubble unemployed developers and pay them to improve Hebrew support for OO. Now it's ready. So this announcement is nothing to be surprised about. It's been in the works for a long time.
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First, let me say to everyone who decided to give this discussion a political bent, "Go Fuck Off!"
Second, Microsoft Office supports Hebrew brilliantly well. Much of the development for left-to-right language support for Microsoft apps is done in Haifa.
I've followed OO Hebrew support for a number of years and it never could compete with Microsoft Office. Two years ago, after the IDF signed a $125 million deal with Microsoft, the Israeli Ministry of Finance finally got fed up. The government in general, with MOF backing, decided to take some of our many, many post bubble unemployed developers and pay them to improve Hebrew support for OO. Now it's ready. So this announcement is nothing to be surprised about. It's been in the works for a long time.
Congratulations to the Open Source Community.
PS Hebrew Mozilla on Windows is really great too.
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