Philip A. Viton wrote:
> Jean-Marc wrote:
>
>
> This has been recently discussed on the developers list, and I do
> not think there was a consensus on this point. There is not much
> point in distributing a free software that people cannot build
> themselves without buying a commercial packages.
>
>
> May I say: if I've understood his point, I really don't think this
> ("not much point in distributing ...") is an issue. Ruurd's port
> means that people don't have to build lyx for themselves, and that,
> to many MSWindows users, is precisely the attraction of the port.
> Otherwise, one could presumably just install cygwin and build
> against the X11 system (as one can do, eg with TeXMacs, which works
> fine).
I thought you were unhappy with the broken "placement of big
operators like \sum and \int"? This is a bug in the old but 'free'
Qt/Win 2.3.x which LyX uses and will remain until someone buys a
Qt-commercial licence and donates it to either Ruurd or lyx.org.
Being presented with the commercial licence would also present some
of the LyX developers with a moral dilemma. That's where the debate
centres and what Jean-Marc meant. If I understand him correctly.
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Angus
