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LinuxPR: AbiWord Repeats as Linux World Show Favorite

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 10, 2000

Wins Office Suite category in voting by 20,000
attendees.

“For the second time in a row, Linux World attendees have voted
AbiWord as their Show Favorite, winning the Office Suite category.
Winners in other categories included IBM, Corel, SuSE, and VA
Linux.”

“AbiWord is a cross-platform Open Source word processor which
runs natively on Linux, Win32, BeOS, Solaris, and other flavors of
Unix. AbiWord is the first component of AbiSuite, a cross-platform
office suite, entirely Open Source, being developed and coordinated
by the AbiSource team.”

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