Re: Sun to release StarOffice as GPL

2000-07-18 Thread erez
i think the problem is not only adding bidi support, but also adding/modifing the input filters so it can import hebrew documents ( it will be a lot better if it could read MsWord format ... ) regards erez. Ira Abramov wrote: On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Matan Ziv-Av wrote: I think that we all

Re: Sun to release StarOffice as GPL

2000-07-18 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 10:07:11AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i think the problem is not only adding bidi support, but also adding/modifing the input filters so it can import hebrew documents ( it will be a lot better if it could read MsWord format ... ) AbiWord opened hebrew Word

Re: Sun to release StarOffice as GPL

2000-07-17 Thread Pavel Bibergal
YOHO! I think that we all together will code the hebrew support for office, it will be not so hard.. all we need to do is to understand the engine (the hard part) and write the addins for enjine that will support hebrew (the wasiest part, we can take dov's algorythms for this) Pavel Bibergal Yosi

Re: Sun to release StarOffice as GPL

2000-07-17 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
I think that we all together will code the hebrew support for office, it will be not so hard.. all we need to do is to understand the engine (the hard part) and write the addins for enjine that will support hebrew (the wasiest part, we can take dov's algorythms for this) Pavel Bibergal

Re: Sun to release StarOffice as GPL

2000-07-17 Thread Ira Abramov
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Matan Ziv-Av wrote: I think that we all together will code the hebrew support for office, it will be not so hard.. You don't have to wait for Star office. There are a few free word processors already: Abiword Maxwell KWord none of them is a full office suite

Sun to release StarOffice as GPL

2000-07-16 Thread Yosi
Hi, I have found a link on /. to the following article on ZDNet: http://www.zdnet.com/sp/stories/news/0,4538,2604174,00.html It seems, Sun will release StarOffice under the GNU Public license "later this summer" (Sun's words). I wonder how easy or hard will it be to hack the open sourced