Re: Arabic electronic dictionary

[" Sara Mraish" <saramraish at earthlink dot net>]

Thanks and I agree with you..now I know it better I actually believe in open
source..

take care,
Sara
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 13:48:10 -0800 (PST) Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>
wrote:

> ---  Sara Mraish  wrote:
> > THanks for your respond. I am actually
> starting to look at this myself now
> > don't know yet where I am heading with
> this...But I think I would not like
> > open source probably.. I am not sure I
> understood what you mean clearly. I am
> > trying to see if I can creat the UI and end
> user for this so that I can
> > intgrate electronic dictionary to end
> usre...something like a search engine
> > like ajeeb.com or Almisbar.com where you can
> look up a word in Arabic and get
> > the result in English..
> 
> Well, I'm not sure it would be fair then to
> assist you in any great length
> unless others were to benefit from your work. 
> In other words, if whatever
> it is that you are pondering/planning will not
> be something that others
> will have access to (in terms of inspecting the
> source and using it), then
> our efforts and time should be spent elsewhere
> helping others that _are_
> into open source and into improving our
> community and our overall intellect.
> 
>  
> http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition_plain.html
> 
> Don't take it the wrong way; we're here to help
> - but we are first and
> foremost an open source project and hold to
> that mantra very strongly.
> This should in turn (and we hope) convince you
> and others to start all
> your new projects under an open source license.
>  If you have concerns
> about doing so, air them out and I'm sure you
> will hear plenty of opinions
> (pro and con) with regards to going in such a
> direction.
> 
> > To be honest I just thought of this and I am
> trying to explore it myself
> > since I am learning C++ ...
> 
> The coding of such a thing is not difficult
> given the actual raw material
> (the so-called "dictionary").
> 
> PS: do please correspondence on the
> mailing-list(s).
> 
> Salam.
> 
>  - Nadim
> 
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