El mié, 03-10-2012 a las 04:01 -0500, Alex Midence escribió: > Glad someone has had time to look into this release. Abiword and > Gnumeric, eh? Yuck. Wonder why they put those old things in there. > Libreoffice is the more logical obvious choice.
Well, I think that they included those applications because they were born in the GNOME community as part of the GNOME Office effort. After the release of OpenOffice as free software project, the GNOME project decided it wasn't worth to spend too much resources for developing a GNOME Office suite, though some people like the alternative vision of the office programs already started like Abiword and Gnumeric and they keep contributing. Unfortunately, they aren't accessible :-( Apart from that, _I_ guess that space constraints could be another reason to bundle this apps instead of LibreOffice. PS: By the way, LibreOffice/OpenOffice is older that any Linux or GNOME piece of software. OpenOffice started off as Star Office. Star Writer became OpenOffice Writer. A team of German programmers worked on Star Office. The German company StarDivision in Lüneburg (founded by 16-year-old Marco Börries in 1984) wrote the original components of StarOffice. StarDivision developed the first version of StarWriter for the Zilog Z80 home-computer system, the Amstrad CPC (marketed by Schneider in Germany) under CP/M, and later for the Commodore 64 under Microsoft BASIC, which was later ported to the 8086-based Amstrad PC-1512, running under MS-DOS 3.2. Later, the integration of the other individual programs followed as the development progressed to an Office Suite for DOS, IBM'S OS/2 Warp, and for the Microsoft Windows operating-system. From this time onwards StarDivision marketed its suite under the name "StarOffice." excerpted from: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_is_the_inventor_of_open_office_writer#ixzz28EVUww87 thread about gnome-office inclusion in gnome ubuntu: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/47620 -- Juan José Marín Martínez Tlf: 956009437 (Corp. 409437) Móvil: 671596200 (Corp. 696200) Fax: 956009445 (Corp. 409445) Informática. Consejería de Cultura y Deporte. DP Cádiz. Junta de Andalucía Antes de imprimir este correo electrónico piense bien si es necesario hacerlo: El medioambiente es cosa de todos. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility