From: Alan Horkan (horkana@tcd.ie)
Date: Mon May 06 2002 - 10:50:42 EDT
Perhaps the press release could include an accurate description of what
abiword does do (and a small note that it does not do tables).
I agree that at this point it might be unwise to hit mainstream news
sources.
did Aiken ever manage to make anything of his Abiword on a CD idea?
I would love to be able to burn a handful of cheap CDs and give them out.
Also if you like i can take the release binary and compress it with UPX
for those who want to try and cram abiword on a floppy disk.
Sincerely
Alan
On 6 May 2002, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> Date: 06 May 2002 15:42:54 +0200
> From: Hubert Figuiere <hfiguiere@teaser.fr>
> To: AbiWord Dev List <abiword-dev@abisource.com>
> Subject: Re: Maybe we shouldn't spam the world with the 1.0 release
> announcement?
>
> On lun, 2002-05-06 at 14:48, Jesper Skov wrote:
> > There's some truth to be found in Joel's text here:
> >
> > http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/PickingShipDate.html
> >
> > 80% of those reading the announcement with download AbiWord, find that
> > it doesn't have tables, and will never ever touch it again.
> >
> > I'm sure enough people, who are not judging a product by features they
> > don't use anyway, will find and start using AbiWord 1.0, even without
> > announcing it all over the place.
>
> I confirm that. I think I should agree with Jskov. Wait for 1.2 with
> Table and other stuff to announce our product to the world.
>
> Announcing 1.0.1 on SF, freshmeat and other free-software oriented is
> fine. Upload them to major software archives (even for Windows) is.
>
>
> Hub
>
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