Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hi, C.

Last mail before I take Sebastian's advice.  ;-)

On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 03:20:59PM -0400, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> 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.
> --
> Canek Peláez Valdés
> Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
> Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Thanks for these exchanges this evening.  I've learnt quite a bit.  So,
it's good night from me, good afternoon to you!

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).