Subject: Re: Topic: Versioning scheme and 1.0
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Thu May 03 2001 - 17:16:34 CDT
On Thu, 3 May 2001, WJCarpenter wrote:
> ms> I also think Abi can do lots and lots of things that Word Pad
> ms> can't.
>
> I agree with this (well, maybe I'd say "lots" instead of "lots and
> lots"), but that is not the way to pose the question. The way to look
> at it is, "Will the average Joe/Jane think AbiWord is more like
> WordPad or more like MSWord?"
>
> To me, today, AbiWord looks more like the "lite" version of a product
> you get bundled with something else or you buy for a few bucks from
> Softkey or some similar publisher. It almost makes you think, "There
> must a a 'pro' version of this around here somewhere that I have to
> pay for to get the heavy-duty features."
Sure! If 10,000 users (2% of our current user base according to Sam) paid
us $100 each they'd get TONS of great features in 1 year. We could afford
to put 10 World Class developers on the Abi project fulltime.
Makes you think eh?
Cheers
Martin
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