Re: Creation of AbiSource Corportation B.V. and grand plans

From: Tomas Frydrych <tf_at_o-hand.com>
Date: Thu May 15 2008 - 14:01:43 CEST

Martin Sevior wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> Marc has just committed his initial patch to
> allow abicollab to connect to the http://abicollab.net service.
>
> This code is pure GPL 2+ but it belongs to AbiSource Corportation B.V.
>
> This is a new company jointly own by Marc Maurer, BetterBe Inc and
> myself in equal shares.
>
> The purpose of the company is to commercialize our new webservice at
> http://abicollab.net.
>
> We are offering a unique service tha no one else can. If we're
> successful we plan to employ abi hackers to accelerate the development
> of the abiword word processor and maybe other Free Software
> productivity applications. Of course the code in AbiWord will always
> be 100% free software.
>
> Marc and I think this augers a new era in the development of AbiWord
> and we're very excited about our future prospects together.
>
> Thanks once again to everyone who has contributed to AbiWord so far.
> We hope to be able to build upon your contributions to enable AbiWord
> to reach even more people.

Great news guys, all the best on this exciting venture !

Tomas
Received on Thu May 15 14:06:59 2008

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