Subject: Re: implications of GPL'd StarOffice
From: Tim LaDuca (mail@timl.org)
Date: Sun Jul 23 2000 - 12:39:23 CDT
My interest in AbiWord will not wane until I see that StarWriter can be
used as a seperate component. Only then will I even bother to evaluate it.
And in October when we say "Show me the Source!" what will it look like?
Perhaps it will stink? I'm just not in love with StarOffice like I am with
AbiWord, so I'd hate to see it wither "under the Sun". :-)
"James W. Lindenschmidt" wrote:
> Greetings, everyone.
>
> I was wondering what, if any, implications there would be for AbiWord of
> Sun's recent decision to GPL StarOffice.
>
> As a paper-writing student end-user type, I have been using AbiWord for
> short notes, and StarWriter for more advanced/longer papers. My only
> qualm about StarOffice, until this week, was that it wasn't Free
> software.
>
> Now, this has changed. Given that I think StarOffice 5.2 is fabulous,
> and that they are working toward a GPL release with 6.0, frankly I am
> finding fewer reasons to use AbiWord. It's not that I have anything
> against AbiWord (quite the contrary), but being realistic, there's
> currently no comparison between AbiWord and StarWriter. If they are both
> GPL'd, why continue with AbiWord?
>
> Do you think AbiWord will incorporate some of the OpenOffice code?
>
> Just wondering...
>
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