On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 02:13:22PM +0100, Jon Masters wrote:
> > I'm kind of sneakily hoping that making enemies of Defconf
> > attendees, won't prove the smartest thing, ever.
> I'm hoping someone cracks in to Adobe and causes them a lot of nasty
> horrible pain. I don't mean a website defacement, I mean someone
> seriously fucking them over to prove a point.
Yeah, because that will *really* help further the cause of open
standards and free software won't it?
> P.S. I don't own a postscript printer :P
Is postscript a proprietary format?
According to the Font HOWTO[0] at least it's an ISO standard.
So how on earth is boycotting an open standard going to help in any way?
Regardless of whether you own a postscript printer when you print via
apsfilter or magicfilter or whatever nice filter you use you'll end up
going via postscript.
[0] I'm not near a net connection at the moment.
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