The Beginning
Like most Open Source projects, AbiWord started as a
cathedral, but has
become more like a
bazaar. AbiWord is part of a larger project known as
AbiSource, which was started by the SourceGear Corporation. The goal of the
project was the development of a cross-platform, Open Source office suite
beginning with AbiWord, the project's word processor.
SourceGear released the source code to AbiWord and a developer community quickly
formed around the project. SourceGear has since then stopped working on the project.
The developer community has since then continued to make improvements and
increase the quality of AbiWord. Version 1.0 was released in April 2002, followed by
Version 2.0 in September 2003, 2.2 in December 2004 and 2.4 in September 2005.
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