On 2007-12-18, Joerg van den Hoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the problem is that you WANT something
I want something and that increasingly appers to be the polar opposite of what the FOSS herd wants -- and not only wrt. the distribution of Ion. > such a modification to the manpage or something > similar would suffice to make your sole point It doesn't. It has to be slammed on the users' faces. Maybe that way 90% will get the message. Without it, maybe 10% gets it. > it's about some kind > of crusade (the historic as well as the contemporary ones > have been notoriously successful endeavours). Well, the FOSS herd is on a crusade against software they don't consider "free", and don't care if choice and quality in software disappears in the process of world domination by software with licenses acceptable to them. > after the fight: nothing works any longer. mission > accomplished. Nothing works ATM or in the past either. Distro release quality control is a fucking joke. They just throw development snapshots of marginal software in, and freeze them, expecting the authors to deal with that. > so, altogether, I think your goals for ion3 are ill-defined: > make up your mind if you want that it is used in a > significant number of installations. I don't want to have anything to do with the FOSS herd and where it's heading with its cherished software. That's why I'm switching to Windows when it's time to upgrade. > without the fighting the situation would be as it has been > for some years: ion3 available and usable. Hardly. Most likely corrupted to use Xft, and thus not offering usable fonts. -- Tuomo
