Obscure question

[qthewetsprocket]

Anyone know what the deal is with Abisource?

They supposedly have quite a shiny word processing program, but their home page seems not to exist. There's another site, brothersoft, which claims to peddle their wares, but I am a bit mistrustful as I can't find anything on Google about them changing their name or their website and therefore can't

Comments

[tencrush]

I don't getcha, what part of www.abisource.com is not existing for you? I'm getting an extensive site about the AbiWord program, with download links and stuff.

[qthewetsprocket]

*tries it again*

*blinks*

Okay, that's weird...I swear to god neither Safari or Firefox would recognize that site a few minutes ago. Maybe they were down for maintenance er summat? :/

Anyway, cheers for alerting me.

*goes to site and investigates*

[tencrush]

I was getting a few weirdy MacAfee warnings about some of the download links on the site, so maybe something was trying to block you?

[qthewetsprocket]

Yeah, I've still not quite got the hang of the security/anti-virus thingummies on this computer. TBH it feels a bit weird even needing them since Linux is usually so bug-proof. Gah, learning new systems is shiny, but it makes my brane hurt.

[brewsternorth]

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AbiWord seems to be on the level. If anything looks a little hinky it's Brothersoft, which looks like it might be a third-party distributor.

If you're really worried, crosscheck it with something like CNET or Sourceforge.

[qthewetsprocket]

If anything looks a little hinky it's Brothersoft, which looks like it might be a third-party distributor.

Yeah, their slightly Mandrish-looking text didn't impress me either...'before you download, clean your pc from errors'??

[kateorman]

I've mucked about with AbiWord - it's fine. Actually, the only reason I didn't hang on to it was that it wouldn't let me print just the even pages!

[qthewetsprocket]

I've really got my work cut out for me now...four different text editors to play around with and decide which one I like best, in addition to learning a whole new OS. *head spins* Good to know this one's got an 'okay' vote of confidence though.

*marks down a vote for AbiWord*

[crossbow1]

I use AbiWord for anything I'm going to be pasting into LJ because it does the straight-up-and-down quotation marks, which my other word processing programs won't - or they probably do but I don't know how.