AbiWord team interview (Red Hat Magazine)

I can'¨t help but think that, instead of speneding time implementing online-collaboration
inside AbiWord, wouldn't it be more worthwhile developing a system-wide method for
online-collaboration. So you can work with your colleagues in Abiword now. Great. How does
that feature help Gnumeric-users, Koffice-user, Lyx-users etc. etc.?

A while ago I wrote about a virtual desktop or something similar, that would be shared across
the network. That desktop would be accessible to other users on the network, and they could
launch different apps on it and work together with those apps. The individuyal apps wouldn't
really need to individually support such collaboration, since it would be supported at the
desktop-level.

Of course my suggestion was more or less shot down, and we now have individual apps that work
towards such collaboration...