Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([62.225.9.49]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.4905); Mon, 22 Jul 2002 21:40:24 +0200 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g6MJe8Wi008297 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 21:40:09 +0200 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.27]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g6MJRkT8022384; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 21:27:46 +0200 (MET DST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C231B7.9F3AC400" Received: from listserv (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.27]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.2/8.12.2/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id g6M1vJDF006368; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 21:28:32 +0200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Received: from LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8d) with spool id 4974 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 21:28:32 +0200 Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.2/8.12.2/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id g6MJSWuV011916 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 21:28:32 +0200 Received: from bilbo.localnet (root@pcp742276pcs.reston01.va.comcast.net [68.49.144.202]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g6MJRgWK006165 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 21:27:43 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from bilbo.localnet (boris@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bilbo.localnet (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian -4) with ESMTP id g6MJRgEC010975 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=FAIL); Mon, 22 Jul 2002 15:27:42 -0400 Received: (from boris@localhost) by bilbo.localnet (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian -4) id g6MJRgLh010971; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 15:27:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20020722200747.A1605@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> (message from Timothy Murphy on Mon, 22 Jul 2002 20:07:47 +0100) References: <878z46p1yi.fsf@becket.becket.net> <200207162352.g6GNq9Ow031038@bilbo.localnet> <878z46p1yi.fsf@becket.becket.net> <15673.62597.185188.389384@istrati.mittelbach-online.de> <20020722200747.A1605@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> Return-Path: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Jul 2002 19:40:25.0070 (UTC) FILETIME=[9FDE08E0:01C231B7] X-Authentication-Warning: bilbo.localnet: boris set sender to borisv@lk.net using -f X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.6 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: User's thoughts about LPPL Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 20:27:42 +0100 Message-ID: A<200207221927.g6MJRgLh010971@bilbo.localnet> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Re: User's thoughts about LPPL Thread-Index: AcIxt6AKRF0cD3hQQUaHoMXMeMRe1Q== From: "Boris Veytsman" To: Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 4346 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C231B7.9F3AC400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 20:07:47 +0100 > From: Timothy Murphy > > Personally, I would have far more faith in the AMS acting sensibly = toward TeX > than I would in Debian. Surely you are right. AMS people work with TeX, and for them it is an important tool. Debian developers are mostly ignorant about TeX; for them it is an exotic product of dubious value. Some of them seem to be ready to sacrifice its important features to an ideological purity. -- Good luck -Boris It is not that polar co-ordinates are complicated, it is simply that cartesian co-ordinates are simpler than they have a right to be. -- Kleppner & Kolenhow, "An Introduction to Mechanics" ------_=_NextPart_001_01C231B7.9F3AC400 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: User's thoughts about LPPL

> = Date:         Mon, 22 Jul 2002 = 20:07:47 +0100
> From: Timothy Murphy = <tim@BIRDSNEST.MATHS.TCD.IE>
>

> Personally, I would have far more faith in the = AMS acting sensibly toward TeX
> than I would in Debian.


Surely you are right. AMS people work with TeX, and = for them it is an
important tool. Debian developers are mostly ignorant = about TeX; for
them it is an exotic product of dubious value. Some = of them seem to be
ready to sacrifice its important features to an = ideological purity.

--
Good luck

-Boris

It is not that polar co-ordinates are complicated, it = is simply
that cartesian co-ordinates are simpler than they = have a right to be.
          &nbs= p;     -- Kleppner & Kolenhow, "An = Introduction to Mechanics"

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