Re: Bad publicity for AbiWord


Subject: Re: Bad publicity for AbiWord
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri Sep 01 2000 - 01:16:52 CDT


On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Jim Colvin wrote:

> The Andover News Network carried a column today titled: "Bring Me The Head
> of an AbiWord Developer!" I get a daily email from Andover with news
> highlights, and of course this one really shocked me. Read it at:
>
> http://www.andovernews.com/cgi-bin/news_column.pl?651
>
> Fortunately AbiWord doesn't get all the blame, but this is still bad
> publicity. Makes one wonder about putting preview releases into Linux
> distributions.
>

Hi Jim,
        Thanks for the heads up. I posted an appology and pointed out
version 0.7.11 automatically saves your files upon a crash.

Cheers

Martin



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