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!!
