On Sat, 2013-10-26 at 12:07 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2013-10-26 at 12:00 +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > About the fact that adobe should maintain their products... I can only > > agree. > > That's the whole point. Other distros and Debian give you and me the > libre to use proprietary, restricted software. We sometimes need it and > we are free to use it, but the distro maintainers can't do the support > for proprietary software.
Before I go off-line, I like to make it absolutely clear. If Debian would announce, that they will do official support for Adobe products, they likely would be sued by Adobe. The OP misrepresents the facts. The "ayatollahs" (I only quote) are Adobe folks, not those who ask him if an alternate PDF reader would be ok too. We don't do it because we are "ayatollahs" who don't want others to use what ever they want, we do it, because Adobe doesn't maintain their products and when using those products this issue will happen again and again. The libre does include to use proprietary software, but the community only can support what is libre by nature, we are not guilty, when Adobe does miss to do their homework, but exactly this is the OP's claim: If Adobe doesn't maintain their products and don't do the support, then those who have nothing to do with Adobe are guilty. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1382783157.656.141.camel@archlinux
