> Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 17:28:10 -0700 (PDT) > From: Walter Landry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Now you seem to be saying that there are so many ways to modify Latex > that I would never need to change article.cls. What if article.cls is > itself broken? Why can't I fix it and distribute that fix? >
You do not understand. Even if article.cls is borken, your changes WILL work -- unless you change TeX, which you are not allowed to do. > > What I am trying to impress upon you here is that free software must > be allowed to evolve in ways that the original author had never dreamt > of and may not approve of. Clause 4 of the DFSG is a compromise that I think this is the clash of philosophies. TeX people are from a different culture. TeX is not going to evolve. It is frozen. As Knuth said, "These fonts are never going to change again" (http://sunburn.stanford.edu/~knuth/cm.html). -- Good luck -Boris How sharper than a serpent's tooth is a sister's "See?" -- Linus Van Pelt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
