From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 29 15:20:49 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA05803 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 29 Mar 1995 15:20:49 -0800 Received: from eel.dataplex.net (EEL.DATAPLEX.NET [199.183.109.245]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA05792 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 1995 15:20:44 -0800 Received: from [199.183.109.242] (cod [199.183.109.242]) by eel.dataplex.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA00247; Wed, 29 Mar 1995 17:20:19 -0600 X-Sender: wacky@shark.dataplex.net Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 17:20:25 -0600 To: Amancio Hasty From: rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth) Subject: Re: Amancio Hasty's Observation Cc: Hackers@FreeBSD.org Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >I think that is inevitable that we will have to embrace propieratory >technology if it means merging in with the market forces. The sooner >we realize this the better off we will be. I do not agree. In particular, the Acrobat technology doesn't buy us anything that we NEED to distribute documentation, etc. in our environment. Talk about BLOAT! I don't see us trying to include magazine quality layouts and graphics in the core system. The user that wants the fancy reader will still be able to read our non-proprietary (HTML, for example) documents with his reader of choice. Embracing proprietary technology is directly opposed to the philosophy behind the "Free" thinkers. ---- Richard Wackerbarth rkw@dataplex.net