Official protest against bug 1060 / was: Re: Away for a
fewdays..
Daniel Stone
daniel at freedesktop.org
Sun Sep 5 04:48:48 PDT 2004
On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 09:38:00AM -0700, Steve Swales wrote:
> This e-mail suggests there is some confusion about Xprint. Xprint is
> part of the official X11 distribution. It has been for a long time. It
> was contributed by HP, long ago, and, though it
> was not working in a practical sense until Sun picked it up and got the
> basics working, it was
> in the distribution, and documented as such.
It is part of the official X11 distribution, yes. I'm suggesting that
this situation change. I know its history.
> The work that Roland has
> done has been to really turn Xprint into a commercially usable
> component, and ABSOLUTELY his work should be incorporated into the
> latest distribution.
Why? Upper case is not a substitute for reasoning.
> Xprint has been vilified by many people... as
> far as I can tell, these people are all English language chauvinists,
> and/or they think that because they can imagine something better than
> Xprint (though they've never been able to PRODUCE anything to replace
> Xprint), that the need to reject Xprint.
People speak English -> they don't like Xprint -> they must be wrong ->
racism
???
> The fact that there have
> been tens of thousands of people who have downloaded Roland's Xprint to
> use with Mozilla shows that these detractors do not represent the whole
> world. In my opinion, they quite literally represent a very narrow
> (i.e. American English) audience. X11 must be a global distribution,
> representing global interests.
Sweet mother of god. I'm an Australian (native English, thusly), who
also speaks Indonesian. Does this make me a fascist?
Sorry this reply took so long. fooishbar.org had dead hardware for a
couple of days, so my mail was diverted to fd.o; I've only just got to
clearing the queue. Something about trying to juggle the platform with
the release of my employer's distribution in ten days.
Regards,
Daniel the native-English-speaking chauvanist pig (who resents the words
'color', 'recognize', et al)
PS: I'm tipping if there was a wider choice of printing solutions with
Mozilla, people would stop downloading Xprint; it's a captive
audience right now.
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