On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 11:01:17AM +0100, David BAUDENS wrote:
> On Thursday 28 November 2002 00:46, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 21:33, laurent Montel wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 27 November 2002 21:56, Danny Tholen wrote:
> > > > On Wednesday 27 November 2002 19:03, Todd Lyons wrote:
> > > > > I have tested this and it works well.  Please look at the url
> > > > > below, grab the rpm, and test it.  You will like the results
> > > > > and you will want to put this rpm in Contribs.
> > > >
> > > > Interesting, so now we have 1 mandrake employee in favour of it
> > > > (Todd) one (with an attitude) against (David), and one in doubt
> > > > (Warly).
> > >
> > > It's not a attitude, we are against, and it's finished.
> > > Discution is closed, you can continue to speak, if you want, but we
> > > will not re-add these font in MDK.
> >
> > *sigh*
> >
> > At least look at what Ben's package does.
> >
> > To say it again:
> >
> > NO ONE IS ASKING YOU TO PUT THE MICROSOFT CORE FONTS IN MANDRAKE.
> >
> > Is that clear enough? Do you want it up in lights somewhere?
> >
> > Ben wants his WRAPPER SCRIPT THAT DOWNLOADS AND INSTALLS THE
> > MICROSOFT CORE FONTS in Mandrake.
> >
> > This is a different thing entirely.
> 
> For you, maybe. But for Microsoft, it is enough to start an action in 
> justice. So, I am sorry but I refuse to see Mandrake close for a such 
> stupid thing.
> 
I can understand the position. Even makes sense, considering MS ability
to buy court decisions.

What I don't understand is the offensive way of stating the position.
I guess it comes from the contempt MandrakeSoft has for its contributors. 

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Murray J. Root
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