Subject: Re: Misc questions
From: Sam TH (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 12 2001 - 21:39:47 CDT
On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 12:05:19PM -0700, Lan Barnes wrote:
> A couple of gee-whiz questions:
>
> 1. What is the origin of the name "abiword"? (I keep wondering if it's from
> the aberrant brain in "The Young Frankenstein": Abby Normal.)
Abi is the root of the spanish word abierto, which means open.
>
> 2. What is the origin of the blue ant icon? Not the artist's name (that
> would be nice) but why?
>
I don't know why, but the artist is Scott Boesch, I believe.
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