Subject: Re: Please Read -- removed AbiWord Personal
From: Sam TH (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 17 2001 - 19:28:55 CDT
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 05:14:43PM -0700, WJCarpenter wrote:
> sam> A. It will come with their OS. B. They will get it from a
> sam> seperate distributor, such as Ximian (http://www.ximian.com).
> sam> C. They will compile it from source.
>
> sam> On Windows, the situation is entirely different. A will never
> sam> happen, B does not exist, and C is impossible for most people. I
>
> Au contraire, there a well-established 3rd party distributors of free
> stuff for Windows. www.download.com, tucows, etc. Those are major
> distributors for non-commercial software. For example, most people
> get WinZIP from such a place (or are redirected to the canonical site
> from such a place).
True - but very different. This has to do with the general freeness
of the software on the two platforms. The Ximian GNOME distribution
is compiled by Ximian, and may have patches they created. Thus, they
would fall in the "AbiWord Personal" category. Tucows would just ship
the regular abiword binary that anyone can download from
abisource.com.
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