[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Good move from IBM.
According to others on this list Mozilla lacks reasonable printing
facilities.
I hope that while developing a BIDI capable office suit the development
team will develop it too. Alternatively, as a second choice, they will
make sure that it will not be forgotten.
> On 2001 November? 7 ,Wednesday 16:07, Herouth Maoz <herouth@netvision.net.il> wrote:
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/05/technology/05OPEN.html
> >
> > This is clearly an open(source) war on microsoft from IBM.
>
> For the sake of others: the title of the article is: "Some I.B.M.
> Software Tools to Be Put in Public Domain".
>
> The first paragraph reads:
>
> - - -
>
> I.B.M. plans to announce today that it is placing $40
> million of its software tools in the public domain as the first step
> toward founding an open-source organization for developers.
>
> - - -
>
> IBM Israel also shows goodwill - according to Captain Internet, IBM
> has committed to creating a Hebrew version of StarOffice/OpenOffice
> by the end of the year. Given that IBM is also behind the Hebrew
> version of Mozilla, it seems that this is indeed part of a strategy.
>
> Herouth
>
> =================================================================
> To unsubscribe, send mail to linux-il-request@linux.org.il with
> the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command
> echo unsubscribe | mail linux-il-request@linux.org.il
>
--
Shaul Karl <shaulka@bezeqint.net>
=================================================================
To unsubscribe, send mail to linux-il-request@linux.org.il with
the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command
echo unsubscribe | mail linux-il-request@linux.org.il