Re: "purity" package

[David Damerell]

On , 30 Nov 1997, Kai Henningsen wrote:
>Sorry. Quake or Doom are silly and stupid; they certainly aren't fun.  

Normally it's silly to assume your own experience is everyone else's.

In a case like this, when it is blatantly obvious that a very large
number of people find both games fun, it's absurd.

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Re: KDE gone, Lyx next ?

[David Damerell]

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>On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 07:59:14PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
>>Joseph Carter wrote:
>>>It's irrelevant.  Lyx is free code using a license that does not allow us to
>>>link it with non-free code.  We can't distribute it if they won't modify
>>>their license.  But like KDE, they deserve a chance to do something about
>>>it.
>>That's what I feared.  Bye-bye LyX.
>>[flamefest from Matthias Ettrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ]
>I hope the situation is not as grim as it may sound.  Try talking to other
>developers on the LyX list, not to Matthias.  Yes, he founded the project,
>and is working on KLyX, but I don't think he has any final say on the
>matter.  I believe that the other LyX Team are a lot nicer and a lot more
>reasonable to discuss with.

In particular, I think Matthias's interest in KDE means that he is more
concerned with making Debian's position over the licensing issues awkward
than with making Lyx accessible...
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