From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed May 08 2002 - 06:22:01 EDT
Dear Developers and Users,
Today we finally release abiword to the world. We
want everyone who can make use of abiword to try it and use it.
To that end please feel totally free to forward the the release email and
html attachment to everyone you can think of who might be interested in
abiword. In particular forward it to any newsites you know of. If you can
translate English to another language, please translate the announcement
and send it on to News sites in that Language.
Don't bother asking me if a news site has already been emailed, just go
ahead and do it!
Happy spamming :-)
Cheers
Martin
On Wed, 8 May 2002, Martin Sevior wrote:
>
> Word Processing for Everyone
>
> AbiWord 1.0 ships
>
> For Immediate Release
>
>
> May 8th, 2002 -- The AbiWord team is proud to announce the first global
> release of the award-winning Open Source word processor, AbiWord version
> 1.0.1. More than three years in the making, AbiWord is a reliable,
> extensible, cross-platform word-processor with many powerful features.
>
>
> We aim at robust inter-operability with existing products, such as
> Microsoft Word, Corel's WordPerfect, and others. Our goal is to
> incorporate the most useful features of these competing applications
> without the fluff, bloat, or inefficiency that accompany them. The result
> is a lean and mean word processor, the download size being less than 4
> megabytes.
>
>
> Translations and as-you-type spell checking are available for more than 30
> different languages on 6 continents, including Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew,
> and Indonesian. An English language thesaurus is available as a separate
> plugin.
>
>
> The worldwide team of AbiWord volunteers is already hard at work
> developing the next release of AbiWord, which will include advanced
> features such as tables and support for more complex languages. Users,
> writers, translators, testers, and developers are all encouraged to try
> out AbiWord and see what they'd like to add next. We would particularly
> like to hear from Korean, Arabic and South Asian developers and
> translators as we extend our coverage to all of the World's Languages.
> Get AbiWord Now
>
>
> AbiWord runs natively on Linux and other Unix variants, Windows, QNX and
> is completely free. A version that runs on MacOSX is also available.
>
>
> You can learn more about AbiWord from our website at
> http://www.abiword.com/.
>
>
> AbiWord can be downloaded from http://www.abiword.com/download/. AbiWord
> can be extended via plugins which can be downloaded
> from: http://www.abiword.com/plugins.phtml
>
>
> The AbiWord team can be contacted via email at: abi@abisource.com.
>
> Micosoft Word is a registered Trademark of Microsoft inc.
> WordPerfect is a registered Trademark of Corel inc.
>
>
>
>
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