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

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.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Martin and Marc
>
>
Congratulations! Definitely looking forward to it, including the part
where I don't have to open a command line to find the IP address and use
AbiCollab on Windows.

Ryan

PS. Extra congratulations to Martin, whose use of the work augur made
me think he mis-typed inaugurate and forced Sum1 to look up augur in a
dictionary and prove once again the professor knows more than the student :D

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