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You only have to see how he writes. What other projects / teams would have reported as "fixed some bugs and replaced the unsupported spell checker technology with hunspell, all going well!" here it takes several pages of... fluff, if you ask me. Either that, or contrived phrases just for the sake of writing a lot of latin expressions.

You never get too much latin in your product updates!!

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Fixed some bugs? The project didn't compile under a modern compiler. The compiled version didn't work well with any language besides English or Latin. There was no spell-checker included with the source and we had to re-write the library. Then there was the total inability to negotiate an SSL/TLS connexion... don't get me started.

I wrote for a general audience. Yes, it's a bit fluffy, but I had to try to explain certain things to people who don't know the first thing about computers (if you don't believe me, take a look at the eudora listmoms listserv). The responses I received were overwhelmingly "don't change a thing but the Unicode handling and the SSL!"

I had to look up "otiose". Not a good sign for an update to backers.

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