From koffice  Wed May 23 19:32:07 2001
From: Richard Bos <allabos () freeler ! nl>
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 19:32:07 +0000
To: koffice
Subject: invited by abiword to work together on doc import
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice&m=99064710806555

Just to make sure, that this invention is not lost I'll post it here.
The inventiotation was made after the beta2-release of koffice,
see: http://dot.kde.org/990543337/

Re: KOffice-1.1 Beta2 Released !
by Dom Lachowicz on Wednesday May 23, @12:56AM

 Hi All,

For what it's worth, I'm the lead developer/maintainer of AbiWord 
(www.abisource.com) and wvWare (www.wvware.com)

MSFT's file formats aren't proprietary, nor is reverse engineering them 
illegal. If you go to either site, you'll see OLE2 docs, docs on the DOC 
format, etc...

wvWare and Abi both have really good support for importing DOC. I'm trying to 
add support for exporting to DOC inside of wvWare right now, though. If 
anyone from the KWord development team is reading this and would like to 
collaborate on making something like this a reality, I'd really appreciate 
it. I'd hate to see a duplication of effort on this sort of scale when it 
could so easily be avoided.

Thanks,
 Dom

-- 
Richard Bos
For those who have no (/)home the journey is endless