Re: Standartization and TeX

2002-07-17 Thread Boris Veytsman
> Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 11:47:37 -0500 > From: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 10:27:55AM -0400, Boris Veytsman wrote: > > However, I agree with David Carlisle, that this discussion is > > moot. The present LPPL conforms to the present DFSG. > > "Present" meaning t

Re: Standartization and TeX

2002-07-17 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 10:27:55AM -0400, Boris Veytsman wrote: > However, I agree with David Carlisle, that this discussion is > moot. The present LPPL conforms to the present DFSG. "Present" meaning the one currently in force, or "present" meaning the one Debian was actually asked to evaluate, t

Re: Standartization and TeX

2002-07-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 10:27:55AM -0400, Boris Veytsman wrote: > Documents in Microsoft Word last only until the company behind them > decides to make a format change and milk the customers for a new > version of their software. The fact that your decade old LaTeX paper > is as good as new, while

Standartization and TeX

2002-07-17 Thread Boris Veytsman
I apologize for being so prolific writer on this list. Still, I'd like to clear an important point. When we talked about LaTeX being both a program and a language standard, some Debian people told us that this situation is the same as with Perl, Python, Ruby etc. I think there is a big difference