[Lvlug] Business Selling Computers

[Randy Kramer]

Daniel S. Washko wrote:
> More sophisticated users are either going to install Linux themselves, or
> not be pleased with how OpenOffice is not MS Office, or the Gimp is not
> Photoshop.  Since chiliware went under, there doesn't seem to be a
> replacement for Publisher.

I guess Publisher is for desktop publishing.

   * Is (was) whatever chiliware wrote/sold open source or GPL?  (Will
it be (did it have one of those licenses where the software becomes GPL
or open source after a period of time (or after the next release, or if
the company goes out of business)?

   * Anybody paying attention to Scribus for desktop publishing?

   * Anybody use KWord?  I understand it is frame-based (if that's a
good description) which means it might be able to be used for some
desktop publishing stuff.

Randy Kramer