On 5/28/06, Simon Phipps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On May 28, 2006, at 02:45, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: > On 5/27/06, Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Dennis Clarke wrote: >> >> No Solaris x86 ? Are we able to perhaps influence this to >> have more up >> >> to >> >> date software options ? >> >> >> >> >> > I for one have posted to their user forum, asking for a >> recompile to >> > x86. I suggest all interested parties do so. >> > >> >> Is this the best tool that we have ? >> >> There must be a better way ... perhaps I will call the Adobe >> executive >> office every single day until I get a response. >> >> No .. that will get me arrested. >> >> Which may also be effective marketing and could qualify as a >> demonstration >> of righteous indignation. > > Easily solved; SUN gets off its fat chuff, heads over to Adobe, asks > how much it'll cost to get Adobe Acrobat running on Solaris x86, then > throw some money at the problem. > > Matty Tried that, mate, as Glenn pointed out earlier. They're not interested. This is the evil of closed software.\
Then the alternative is for SUN to get 10 engineers, and get them to work on an existing opensource project to bring it up to standard or create an in house version based off licencing specifications. Either that, or launch a spear campaign that equates Adobe to killing cute little bunny rabbits. Matty _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
