On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 09:15:08AM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > [...] is bad because people might break the rules?
Any situation that predictibly makes violations of the GPL into standard practice is, indeed, bad. That's an indictment of Troll Tech's practices, not LyX or QT development by any one developer here. (Unfortunately, such criticism is being taken very personally). I have had other issues with GUII, code "clean-up", etc., which obviously and vocally became priorities here, for an extended period of time, arresting much new feature development. In this context, a wide range of other ambitions for LyX faded, and a number of users and contributors, included myself, distanced ourselves from the project. Part of my reason for wading in at this point was to see whether the atmosphere had changed. The stridency I've observed in just a handful of days on this list, and 1.4.0cvs' reimagining of basic user interface controls like the "Layout" menu -- in place for years -- without any real change in function, makes me wonder. I've heard the canard of "feature bloat" from some. I'd take a few more menu items over boatloads of Evil Red Text any day.
