From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1R12F7-0004lZ-EJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 20:27:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1755721C150; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 20:27:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.muc.de (colin.muc.de [193.149.48.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 593C221C042 for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 20:26:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 36190 invoked by uid 3782); 6 Sep 2011 20:26:08 -0000 Received: from acm.muc.de (pD951A7AA.dip.t-dialin.net [217.81.167.170]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 22:26:07 +0200 Received: (qmail 2488 invoked by uid 1000); 6 Sep 2011 20:22:30 -0000 Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 20:22:30 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild? Message-ID: <20110906202230.GH9867@acm.acm> References: <4E664740.80406@gmail.com> <20110906164938.GC9867@acm.acm> <20110906175554.GE9867@acm.acm> <20110906185725.GG9867@acm.acm> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) From: Alan Mackenzie X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: b53bf94f1ea8d60edc56f02e0eba513c Hi, C. Last mail before I take Sebastian's advice. ;-) On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 03:20:59PM -0400, Canek Pel=E1ez Vald=E9s wrote: > On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi Alan. > Point a, you are oversimplifying. Indeed. :-) > THAT is insane. I think I am, too. > >> And again, it's Open Source. If there is enough demand, someone will > >> write support for other printing systems. Just don't assume that any > >> project (being LibreOffice or Gentoo) need to support your choices > >> besides the most used one. > > Again the code already exists, it's merely a matter of not destroying > > it. I became a user based on it supporting a standard printing > > system, and it's perfectly reasonable for me to expect that support > > to continue. > Sorry, but again I disagree. You became a user of an Open Source piece > of code. If it breaks, you get to keep the pieces, and that's about it. > Read the GPL license: > "... is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT > ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or > FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE." Thankfully, there are many, many hackers who, despite the legal lack of responsibility, actually do support their projects effectively. As I aspire to do with mine. As I presume you do with yours too. > Regards. > --=20 > Canek Pel=E1ez Vald=E9s > Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingenier=EDa de la Computaci=F3n > Universidad Nacional Aut=F3noma de M=E9xico Thanks for these exchanges this evening. I've learnt quite a bit. So, it's good night from me, good afternoon to you! --=20 Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).