My 2 penn'orth When first starting I found patience with newbie mistakes, which I now see get asked and answered frequently. I got the book and examples and worked methodically through them INDEED causing me to not ask questions which are 'answered in the book' thus saving everyone from my stupidity
I dont get why everyone thinks they have a right to continuing free open source software. For everything, regardless. I get why people want to do it, and believe it is right, but I run a business creating presentations and organising conferences and SOMETIMES I do work for causes I believe need help for free, less than cost, reduced rates. And you know what, that is MY choice and the last thing in the world you have the right to is to insist I do the same for you. My rules, not yours. I do however have the right defend myself from you ripping off all my work and passing it off to others Look seriously at how much iText has added in the last year. This is not a couple of blokes just doing the odd maintenance and bug fix on a library, this is on-going progress in some heavy duty areas. So what if the guys who put in *MOST* of the work want to change the licence to stop people getting rich off their goodness. So what if it creates tension between the *free* and commercial versions, so what if it creates a new hybrid class of licensed open-source which leads into people having paid time to invest in the library rather than doing it in the garage at night. Their choice. There are those in the world who, as Oscar Wilde is reported to have said know the cost of everything and the value of nothing. iText has enabled me to give really serious value to three charities in the last year for whom I work by automating really complex processes from a database. The fact that I can do this for free is BRILLIANT, but if I worked for a large company who could (and should) afford it then I just don't get why people want to whinge about paying here. It's quite negative and gets on my nerves. This is publically available for free, but it's Bruno's rules. Can's see the problem myself. john renfrew Right Way Up Office +44 1675 475341 Fax +44 1675 475342 Mobile +44 7767 443992 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/
