----- Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Subject: Re: AbiWord, wvWare, and Hancom From: Bart Decrem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Dom Lachowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: AbiWord Developer List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=EUC-KR Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.5 Date: 16 May 2002 10:20:20 +0900 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0
Hi Dom, AbiWord team, Thanks for the kind words. I just wanted to add to that that I'm really impressed with AbiWord 1.0.1. It's a terrific product and I'm glad you guys are getting the great press your project deserves. Best of luck! Cheers, Bart 2002-05-15 =BC=F6 23:21, Dom Lachowicz=B0=A1 =C0=DB=BC=BA: > So last night, I had the pleasure of talking with Bart Decrem again (I > always love talking with Bart) for about 45 minutes to an hour. We > talked about a lot of things, but mainly about: >=20 > *) The future of OpenOffice and the benefits gained by sharing in their > successes > *) The future of Hancom > *) Collaboration between our two organizations >=20 > And I have to say that the talk was largely productive. Bart now > believes that he has a course of action to propose to his employers.=20 >=20 > Hancom will be working with us to help open up their file format. They > have a 200 page document describing their format, but unfortunately, it > is mostly in Korean. If there is someone who wants to translate that > into English, you'd be doing us a huge favor. Hancom has also given me > access to their FTP site and several license-keys for their product, and > I have an open offer to see some internals of the product, which I have > declined to use for the moment. >=20 > On our part, I'd like to get us at least to read the Hancom format in > short order. Ideally, we will be able to write it too. It would help out > both of our projects greatly to do this. Once Jody (gnumeric maintainer) > finishes up some work on the CompoundDocument library (OLE2 and > OpenOffice JAR format reading & writing library), I commit myself to > improving AbiWord's OpenOffice support so that it is on-par with our ABW > and RTF support. >=20 > There are other details which I am purposefully excluding here, and I > will release them at a later time when I feel it is appropriate. >=20 > If you are interested in working on a HancomWord import/export filter, > please contact me directly off-list and I will do my best to help you > out. >=20 > Cheers, > Dom >=20 ----- End forwarded message -----
