There's something in this thread I may be a bit too simple to understand.
I assume bidi support is really better than in current products, are the
algorithms
patented ?
if so, I'm not really sure what good will releasing _the source_ to public
domain will do, at least for law-abiding entities ( {persons} \subset
{entities} ... :) ).
If , OTOH, there are no patents, than wouldn't releasing the source be
beneficial to other projects regardless of the porting effort ?
To summarize, it seems to me the porting effort, requires that
the source be released, but IMHO its' feasibility should not hinder efforts
to release the source.
I, for one, am willing to donate a modest amount (~100 shekels) for the
explicit
purpose of releasing the source (unburdened by patents) to public domain.
Moshe Kaminsky wrote:
>Hi,
>When I was a kid, I used a word processor called Qtext on my dos
>machine. It was a freeware written by an Israeli guy, and had a better
>(by far) bidi support than any alternative I knew.
>
>Yesterday, I discovered that I work with the guy who wrote it in the
>same room. He told me that Qtext still exists, it is no longer a
>freeware (it belongs to his kibutz) and that it still has the best bidi
>support (they have only a window$ version). He also told me that the
>developement of Qtext has stopped, since people seem to prefer M$ word
>(apparently for the same obscure reasons they prefer other M$
>software :). Anyway, he told me that they might be willing to sell the
>source. Since they ceased developing it, I guess the price won't be very
>high, and if it is possible to port it to linux, this might be the best
>bidi word processor we have (it also supports Arabic and nikud).
>
>My question is, is there someone who might want to fund it?
>
>Moshe
>
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