David J. Orman wrote:
On May 30, 2006, at 5:34 PM, Glynn Foster wrote:
Shawn Walker wrote:
Feel the love.
-Shawn
And with that fine message from Shawn, I'd like to propose an end of
thread. This conversation isn't productive, scares the living crap out
of me each time I start writing the OpenSolaris weekly news, and
discourages people from posting value to the lists.
Take this to private mail or IRC please.
The original topic is very important to OSOL, I don't think discussion
of it should cease due to one user's actions. This *is* an important
issue, but we should not all have to "pay" for one particular user's
opinions if it is indeed so bad we are being urged to simply stop
discussion.
We should not stop discussion to get a solution. I do find the
discussion have been strangely circling around having Sun to pay Adobe
Acrobat. Acrobat is closed software, this is not the long term solution.
We should look more towards OSS, the topic of discussion should be PDF
Reader for Solaris x86, personally I think.
Granted gpdf is not a very good, so it is dropped by the OS
community, evince is better, and will get a lot better if Adobe is not
releasing free reader for the various platforms. Adobe acrobat is a good
case study for 'evilness' of closed source 'free' software [1].
-Ghee
[1] Now I have the market share, just cherry picking which platform I
want to release on.
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