Re: Changing the AbiWord slogan and top level text on the website.

From: Ryan Pavlik <abiryan_at_ryand.net>
Date: Sat Nov 07 2009 - 22:11:41 CET

Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér wrote:
> ---- 8< ---- Martin Sevior ---- 8< ----
>> I propose that we change our slogan to "Share your writing". (This
>> text was suggested by Marc Maurer)
>> and that the first few sentences of our website say:
>> "AbiWord is a free Word Processor similar to MicroSoft Word. However
>> AbiWord also enables many people to work on the same document at
>> exactly the same time with the free abicollab.net website."
> ---- 8< ---- Martin Sevior ---- 8< ----
>
> For one thing, Abiword is no longer similar to Word; and it was not a
> particularly attractive argument to begin with.
> There is some ambivalence about the abicollab.net integration. I heard
> some alarms going off with the more Free Software-inclined. Also, I was
> surprised by this - is the site necessary for collaborative work?
>
> Yours,
> Morten

It's certainly not necessary - you can still use all the other methods
(tcp/ip, jabber, tubes), it's just one more.

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