Subject: Re: right-click to do calculations Non-member submission from [pod@sapienagents.net]]
rms@greymalkin.yi.org
Date: Tue May 22 2001 - 13:42:53 CDT
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 08:21:46PM +0800, ha shao wrote:
> The hammer thing is a wrong metaphor from the beginning. Abiword
> is not a caculator, if you want it to do something other than wp,
> you have to pay for it. That way, people who use it as a wp would
> not pay for you. However small it is, it does not belong to wp.
Wait a minute, I thought this was Free Software.
I really can't understand your animosity.
Are you expecting to make money out of extra abiword features and someone just "stole" you one?
> It's the job of plugin. Otherwise, the same arguement can be used
> to any itches everyone want to scratch. And we will get a mozilla,
> I mean gazilla soon.
This is a small hack which is probably DUMB to make as a plugin.
It's so small that being a plugin will:
make it harder to be XP
cause more work than it needs.
having features which one user can use (and that don't harm anyone) means one more user happy.
Oh, and please, do not use mozilla as a point behind your arguments again (at least that way). I won't even touch those pesty remarks about the *BEST* browser in the world.
mozilla and AbiWord have many things in common:
they're both XP (though in different ways, since they created their own xp tk)
they're both primarily c++.
they're both bringing the normal user to the linux desktop
they're both worried with ease of use and standards
Hugs, rms
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