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Re: Star Office (was: opensource in Israel)



yea koffice is stable but would it ever support bidi headers?
the knowladge required to make a patch for it to support bidi headers
is not trivial at all and I doubt anyone beside the people who actually
wrote the code would be able to do it in reasonable time

Ely Levy
System group
Hebrew University 
Jerusalem Israel



On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:

> > It's entirely up to Sun. If they want it, they'll implement it. Of
> > course, anyone can do the work themselves and ask Sun to include it,
> > now that it's open source.
> 
> Umm, from what I heard - it's not a very easy thing to push there a new
> feature. First, Sun engineering want to test the new feature, then they'll
> decide if to put it or not.. Oh, and the copyright needs to be by Sun..
> 
> Personally - if someone asks me - I would recommend to them that either to
> help AbiWord (are those guys going to come up with 1.0 version some day? I
> know abiword way back since 97-98) or help Koffice (which IMHO becomes
> something really stable these days - RC1 just came outt last week and I
> think next month the 1.1 final version will be out)
> 
> Hetz
> 
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