On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 22:16, Paul W. Frields wrote: > > > Sun provide Java. Lets use it. > > Adobe provides Acrobat; shall we simply use that instead? ;-) fop produces pdf output? > > I can't see the rationale there. > > A look at the kernel developers' list and searching for "Nvidia" might > convince you otherwise. I don't know Paul. No idea what Nvidia is. > > > As hard as it may be to start, having a completely free toolchain will > > > be blessing. > > > > To whom? > > Sounds like whipping yourself to me. > > No, I think it's more a case that Karsten is trying to cleave to the > purpose of the Fedora Project as a 100% free O/S. Violating that > principle on the docs side just means that, at best, we fail to support > or act on a free alternative; at worst, we support a crippled O/S. > > IMHO, anyone should be able to use a totally free O/S to "bootstrap" the > building of any component thereof, including docs. I guess I'd consider that an extremist view. Especially for a tool to produce documentation, a third order product. How far back does this view go? -- Regards DaveP. XSLT&Docbook FAQ http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl
