William Ballard writes: > On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 09:26:26AM -0500, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: > > Take your problems with Octave, GNU Emacs, XEmacs, GNU R, Open Office, > > Firefox, half of xscreensaver, and Evolution to their respective developers. > > No, your metaphor is broken. Those are "new and exciting lighters." A > lighter will have a button in a simlar place to a bic, it will have a > fuel chamber in a similar place to a bic.
Each of those applications (except perhaps GNU Emacs, whose history I do not know) is intentionally designed to resemble and act like software that existed before. They each have functional differences from their predecessor, but an image of a lighter is functionally different from a lighter, so please elaborate on why the ligher image is bad but those applications are not. Would be uncomfortable if Debian included an image of Uncle Sam in a free clipart package? Or should Debian use some new and creative alternative? Michael Poole
