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 <a...@muc.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).
