Why Am I excited about Icaros?

[DiskDoctor]

cicero790 wrote:
you're free to pursue any project of course.
I think the spreadsheet Ignition is being worked on.

Gotta check it out sure, but doesn't look good from screenshots :-)

I want to make something new, extremely useful and easy to use.  Something I was planning (and actually started) on MacOSX until infamous Apple outnumbered me with their new iWork 08 Numbers :-(

Final Writer 5 can export to rtf, acsii,html and its native format.
Problem is this does not come with icaros. It needs a word processor of it own.

What's the problem to include one? The license? I don't get it. Is this one free or what?

If you  could get icaros going and test it out, inspiration may follow. :-)

OK but for the time being I got only VMWare hosted AROS... OK.

[cicero790]

That project sounds extremely exiting. How much more good it would do on icaros than on macosx that already have so much.

About final writer, I think its license related.

VMWare is a ideal start. I was running it in vmware for months and occasionally got more and more acquainted with it, and then I finally wanted it on real hardware.

Good luck with the project idea. It would make many ppl very happy I think to have it materializing.  :-)