On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote:
Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote:
Remco Blaakmeer writes:
If nobody objects to it, I'll file bug reports for the following
annoyances I have encountered when X is misconfigured:
I
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 03:13:40PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
Sticker on my new Toshiba laptop:
Notice: The software products pre-installed on your computer are
copyrighted works. Before turning on your computer, please read the
License Agreemant printed on each software package
Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote:
Remco Blaakmeer writes:
If nobody objects to it, I'll file bug reports for the following
annoyances I have encountered when X is misconfigured:
- If the X server fails to start, xdm seems to be restarting it
indefinitely. I'd say that if the X server
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote:
Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote:
Remco Blaakmeer writes:
It is probably illegal to use the fonts that come with Windows.
Why? If you bought a Windows license, you bought a license for the
Windows components, I think.
That sounds right
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote:
Remco Blaakmeer writes:
You can place the fonts in a subdirectory of /var/ttfonts . You can use
any name for that subdirectory. Where you get the fonts is another issue.
It is probably illegal to use the fonts that come with Windows.
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, George Bonser wrote:
On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
They have no license or the license is ill-formed or very ambiguous. You
get the idea.
The gist of any Microsoft licenses I have ever read have been along the
lines of:
This software is owned by
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On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote:
The point is: they can't demand certain restrictions in the license,
even if you signed a contract (which most users even did not). But I'm
not a lawyer, and won't speak as if I knew better than I do...
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote:
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote:
Yeah! Is there a good reason why xffst is not started in /etc/rc.boot
(or something)?
I can think of a reason or two...no not really...
there is a problem with trying to stop it (without
On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 02:42:16PM -0700, George Bonser wrote:
They have no license or the license is ill-formed or very ambiguous. You
get the idea.
The gist of any Microsoft licenses I have ever read have been along the
lines of:
This software is owned by Microsoft, not you. You have
Stephen Carpenter writes:
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On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote:
The point is: they can't demand certain restrictions in the
license, even if you signed a contract (which most users even did
not). But I'm not a lawyer, and won't speak as if I
Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote:
Stephen Carpenter writes:
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On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote:
The point is: they can't demand certain restrictions in the
license, even if you signed a contract (which most users even did
not). But I'm
Remco Blaakmeer writes:
If nobody objects to it, I'll file bug reports for the following
annoyances I have encountered when X is misconfigured:
- If the X server fails to start, xdm seems to be restarting it
indefinitely. I'd say that if the X server is restarted too often too
fast, it
Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote:
Remco Blaakmeer writes:
If nobody objects to it, I'll file bug reports for the following
annoyances I have encountered when X is misconfigured:
I don't know if I agree witha bug report against X...as the keyword there is
misconfigured...although you could
George Bonser writes:
On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
They have no license or the license is ill-formed or very
ambiguous. You get the idea.
The gist of any Microsoft licenses I have ever read have been along
the lines of:
This software is owned by Microsoft, not you. You
Or I could send an spam like:
By receiving this email you agreed to install Debian on your
computer, and delete all the other operating systems in it.
Sticker on my new Toshiba laptop:
Notice: The software products pre-installed on your computer are
copyrighted works. Before turning on
If you happen to have an hour or two to killand nothing better to do you
caould
call the tech suport for the company and complain
tell them that you want to delete the software off of the hard drive but refuse
to
turn it on because you don't want to agree to and be bound by those licences
On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote:
Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote:
Remco Blaakmeer writes:
If nobody objects to it, I'll file bug reports for the following
annoyances I have encountered when X is misconfigured:
I don't know if I agree witha bug report against X...as the
Remco Blaakmeer writes:
You can place the fonts in a subdirectory of /var/ttfonts . You can use
any name for that subdirectory. Where you get the fonts is another issue.
It is probably illegal to use the fonts that come with Windows.
Why? If you bought a Windows license, you bought a license
Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote:
Remco Blaakmeer writes:
It is probably illegal to use the fonts that come with Windows.
Why? If you bought a Windows license, you bought a license for the
Windows components, I think.
That sounds right to meIt is of course illegal to distribute the font
Stephen Carpenter writes:
but... What are the chances of Micro$oft using any sort of free
licence for anything?
The point is: they can't demand certain restrictions in the license,
even if you signed a contract (which most users even did not). But I'm
not a lawyer, and won't speak as if I knew
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I know
in fact xfstt is on the list of Packages needing a new main tainer
I know this list is not really the proper place for this but...
since it needs a new maintainer...I am wondering what is involved in that
I have been thinking for a while that I would
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote:
I was told that XFSTT had a new maintainer when I asked to adopt it... so
I guess we are both to late.
MUCH SNIPED
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On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Petra Kevin J Poorman wrote:
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote:
I was told that XFSTT had a new maintainer when I asked to adopt it... so
I guess we are both to late.
Where is xfstt*.deb?
/---/
ahh thanx for the info
It has been on that list saying it needed a new maintainer for a while
now...oh well...
hopefully now the documentation will be fixed :)
-Steve
Petra wrote:
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote:
I was told that XFSTT had a new maintainer when I asked to
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On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Daniel Mashao wrote:
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Petra Kevin J Poorman wrote:
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote:
I was told that XFSTT had a new maintainer when I asked to adopt it... so
I guess we are both to late.
On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Paul Rightley wrote:
I have installed xfstt, but it seems to be documentation-poor.
I know nothing of fonts in X (or in Windows for that matter -
I guess I am the prototypical luser). Where would I get some
TTF fonts and where would I put them to use them? Are there
I read this now and this reminds me of a point I have meant to bring to someones
attention...
the debian xfstt package soes not contain the original xfstt documentation!
I installed it recently (again) and actually had to download the package off of
sunsite
and unpack the tarball just to get the
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote:
I read this now and this reminds me of a point I have meant to bring to
someones
attention...
the debian xfstt package soes not contain the original xfstt documentation!
I installed it recently (again) and actually had to download the package
I have been using gimp to produce some overheads lately (in the
hope that I can finally rid myself of the necessity of booting
into and Windows product). However, when I create large text
(like 50 pixels high), it looks pretty pixelated - even if the
image itself has a much higher resolution. Is
On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Paul Rightley wrote:
I have been using gimp to produce some overheads lately (in the
hope that I can finally rid myself of the necessity of booting
into and Windows product). However, when I create large text
(like 50 pixels high), it looks pretty pixelated - even if the
I am sorry if I am clueless...
I installed xfntscl and looked in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo and Type1
for the fonts listed in fonts.scale (I assume that this is how one
determines if a font is scalable). I then tried using these fonts
in gimp. This worked the same way as before (strong
I have installed xfstt, but it seems to be documentation-poor.
I know nothing of fonts in X (or in Windows for that matter -
I guess I am the prototypical luser). Where would I get some
TTF fonts and where would I put them to use them? Are there
fonts of this sort that follow the DFSG (which I
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