Re: OpenOffice.org British thesaurus

[Stephen Smoogen <smoogen lanl gov>]

On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 21:05, Keith G. Robertson-Turner wrote:
> On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 11:54:04 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> 
> > Is there a en_GB thesaurus for OOo?  I wasn't aware one existed that was
> > freely distributable under LGPL/GPL, but if there is, please point me to
> > it and I'll see what i can do.
> 
> Well I guess I just don't understand how a list of American words can be
> free, but a list of British words is not.
> 
> You're right, after much Googling I couldn't find any OSS thesauruses.
> 
> The point is this, the functionality of OOo is compromised for British
> users. OOo is one of the ambassadors of the Linux movement, and is often
> used as an incentive for Windows switchers, but I guess if you're British,
> the advise would have to be to stick to Windows if you want a thesaurus?
> 

Well then start one. If you cant program you can at least do the word
conversions and such. With that someone can at least do a basic db with
it. The world isnt going to end because everything isnt absolutely
perfect and done now. 

Stephen 'going to get his cuppa tea to calm down' Smoogen

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