On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 22:16, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> Sun provide Java. Lets use it.
Adobe provides Acrobat; shall we simply use that instead? ;-)
fop produces pdf
output?
> I can't see the rationale there.
A look at the kernel developers' list and searching for "Nvidia" might
convince you otherwise.
I don't know Paul. No idea what Nvidia is.
> > As hard as it may be to start, having a completely free
toolchain will
> > be blessing.
>
> To whom?
> Sounds like whipping yourself to me.
No, I think it's more a case that Karsten is trying to cleave to the
purpose of the Fedora Project as a 100% free O/S. Violating that
principle on the docs side just means that, at best, we fail to support
or act on a free alternative; at worst, we support a crippled O/S.
IMHO, anyone should be able to use a totally free O/S to "bootstrap" the
building of any component thereof, including docs.
I guess I'd consider that an extremist view. Especially for a tool to
produce documentation, a third order product. How far back does this
view go?
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Regards DaveP.
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