On 01/19/2016 02:01 PM, Grundtvig Nielsen Niels wrote:
Just to let you know that someone fairly reputable isn’t happy with some
of your descriptive text ;-} see
http://dita.xml.org/news/release-of-xmlmind-dita-converter-v257-a-serious-alternative-to-the-dita-open-toolkit
I think she might be mollified if you said /Download a free evaluation
copy of this this software from
http://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/download.shtml /– I don’t know how much
weight she or you would want to put on /open source/.
I had to reply to her comment which is simply incorrect.
My answer was:
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Sorry but your "Not free, not open source" comment is incorrect
Yes, XMLmind XSL Utility is a commercial product and yes, its Evaluation
Edition generates output containing random duplicate letters.
However, the news article was about XMLmind DITA Converter, a different
software.
XMLmind DITA Converter (AKA ditac) is as free and as open source as the
DITA Open Toolkit. Otherwise we could not write "A serious alternative
to the DITA Open Toolkit".
Open Source license:
http://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/MPL-2.0.html
Free download:
http://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/_download/ditac-2_5_7.zip
You may prefer to use DITA Open Toolkit, something we understand very
well (see the "Some good reasons to keep using the DITA Open Toolkit"
section in this page
http://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/why_choose_ditac.html), but please do not
write erroneous statements about our products.
We are indeed a small company, but also a very honest one. We don't lie
to our users and our customers.
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Just back from two days’ one-to-one training on the FrameMaker plug-in
DITA-FMx. The old acquaintance giving the training is a long-term
<oXygen> user, but liked the uncluttered look of XXE when he saw it on
my laptop and said he’ll be taking a look. “It doesn’t frighten new
users by showing too many commands”, was his comment on the GUI.
Thank you for keeping us informed about this.
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