| AbiWord: Open Source's Answer to Microsoft Word [O'Reilly Network] |
Mar. 18, 2002
Howard Wen examines AbiWord, the popular open source word processing program, in this article at O'Reilly Network. Wen reports . . .
"Tired of putting up with Microsoft Word's bloated file size and price, but still need to deal with documents in Word format? Then you should take a serious look at AbiWord. This open source word processor is able to read and write most documents in Word's *.doc file format . . . "
" . . . based on its recent beta releases, AbiWord 1.0 should be a very stable and usable program for those who need to write letters, memos, reports, and papers (and Web articles like this one, which was completely written on AbiWord). While users' expectations should be realistic, this open source Word clone's clean, easy-to-use interface already meets its development team's most important reason for continuing to develop and refine it . . ."
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