From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed May 15 2002 - 00:01:06 EDT
From the interview with Bart he said he'd be very interested in joint
efforts for Office filters. Well wv is of course GPL'd so they can't link
it directly, however it would be rather easy to wrap wv with a bonobo
layer which can be executed from within hancom with no problems. We of
course could just link it directly :-)
Dom might want to do this anyway to provide an MS Word filter for any
Gnome application.
The great win for us is that we get paid developer support on wv.
However wv is Dom's lib and it will be some work for him to support this.
Cheers
Martin
On Tue, 14 May 2002, Paul Rohr wrote:
> At 03:11 PM 5/13/02 -0700, I wrote:
> >Instead, I'll put the ball back in your court. Can you think of a better
> >way to take Bart up on his offer of help? I'm pretty sure he's serious, and
> >I never want to pass up paid help from a company that knows something about
> >word processors.
>
> After some private email with Alan, here are a few better ideas:
>
> 1. See if they're interested in working on Pango.
> --------------------------------------------------
> Having shipped a Korean word processor on Windows (no longer supported from
> what I hear), Hancom is now moving into the Linux world in a big way.
> Insofar as we have a strong interest in:
>
> - having Pango run well on non-Linux platforms, and
> - having it do a great job of supporting CJK languages,
>
> perhaps this is an area where they could apply their existing expertise in
> ways that would help us, the GNOME project, and themselves. I'm betting
> that Hancom engineers may not be free to contribute to our GPL codebase, but
> Pango is LGPL, so that should still a licensable option for them.
This is a good idea but I beleive they have already decided on QT 3 which
provides this. I don't know how good QT 3 is compared to pango though.
>
> 2. See if they'd be willing to fund some high-quality TTF fonts.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> As we all know, there just aren't enough high-quality Unicode fonts
> available for use on Unix. Indeed, I suspect that the situation is even
> worse for complex scripts like Korean.
>
This is a good idea but I think we're unlikely to get much joy here. There
is no incentive for a font foundary to provide GPL or LGPL'd fonts so my
guess is that unless they purchased the fonts outright we would get much
joy.
> I suspect that any fonts they already have use other encodings, but
> depending on how they licensed those fonts in the first place, perhaps
> they'd be willing to fund an effort to convert them to Unicode and release
> them. (Or not. That might be a key part of the value-add for their
> distro.) Still, that's right up Bart's alley.
>
> action
> ------
> Would any of our i18n folks be interested in pursuing either of these ideas
> with Bart? Alan's looking to bow out of that conversation, and I'm way over
> my AbiWord time budget for the week.
>
> Thanks,
> Paul
>
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