-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/14/07 14:03, Joe Hart wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 03/14/07 10:34, Joe Hart wrote: >>> Celejar wrote: >> [snip] >>> I agree, yet I get when I point out that Debian does not >>> support acroread because it is proprietary to Adobe. Go figure. >> Can you post a link (from the archives) to the post in which you >> think you were chastised? I've been following this link and never >> got the impression that you were chastised. > >>> Joe > > It's in this thread. Link I found contains messages from 2 people who > found fault with my original reply to the OP. I didn't say I was being > chastised, I said berated, which I define as scolded. > > Mike McCarty claims that I am doing the chastising. We already know he > doesn't like Unix or Debian, we don't know which, and Hugo Vanwoerkom > who thinks this list is mediocre at helping people. > > It appears that both of them think I was not being helpful and stated it > in not so polite terms. > > Here's the link: > > http://people.debian.org/~terpstra/message/20070314.103507.be5da96a.en.html > > I am just trying to be helpful, and when someone complains about a bug > in software that doesn't comply with the dfsg, I suggested that they try > supported software or take their problem upstream. I don't see a > problem with my answer.
That's what I thought. However, I didn't read "take this up with Adobe, since they are the only ones that can fix it." as chastisement, since Adobe really is the only place that can fix a bug in acroread. OTOH, I can see where it would be interpreted as a curt or dismissive response, even if it wasn't meant to be. > > Since the original post, we have discussed the bloat of acroread and the > alternative pdf viewers, and never once did I think this was off topic > to this mailing list. I still don't. > > Joe > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF+FCKS9HxQb37XmcRAnwvAKDV1VVvHezqwxr+ox5R8PbYlxz6UgCeOO5A K0YqNBKH3Bkzr/r2S4vvgMw= =2kCD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
