From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Mon May 13 2002 - 18:11:22 EDT
At 10:36 PM 5/13/02 +0100, Alan Horkan wrote:
>I was impressed that they were so receptive in the first place. They may
>be a Linux vendor but Hancom Word is proprietary software.
That's generous of you. I'd think that was just sound marketing practice
for even proprietary vendors these days -- especially on Linux. Can you
image any word processor user who'd *prefer* that their content was locked
up in a binary file format nobody else could ever read?
>I am not going
>to push my luck. When I am representing just myself I will be a smart ass
>but i make a concerted effort to be polite when i am representing the
>Abiword community.
Thanks. I definitely appreciate your efforts to be such a good
representative of the AbiWord community.
My suggestion wasn't entirely tongue-in-cheek, but it was just a suggestion.
Bart has a marketing job, IIRC. It may be in their interest to be able to
tout their efforts to ensure compatibility with us. It may not. I don't
know, which is why I thought it made sense to ask *them* to make that call.
Instead, I'll put the ball back in your court. Can you think of a better
way to take Bart up on his offer of help? I'm pretty sure he's serious, and
I never want to pass up paid help from a company that knows something about
word processors.
>And if I did as you suggest I would also have to file a bug in Abiword
>saying the Abiword developers should go and add .abw export to OpenOffice
>and KWord (and similarly that the OpenOffice.org developers should help
>improve our OpenOffice.org support).
Sorry, that's a false parallel. Bart *volunteered* to help.
Paul
motto -- when somebody offers to help, take them up on it!!
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