On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 04:41:37PM -0400, Evan Prodromou wrote: > >>>>> "SL" == Steve Langasek <vorlon@netexpress.net> writes: > SL> If the intent is *only* as a political tool, I would agree > SL> that this decss program achieves its aims fairly effectively; > SL> but it is in no way a useful piece of *software*, which is > SL> what Emile seems to be arguing by disagreeing that it's > SL> trivial to implement. The question then is whether we want to > SL> include programs in Debian which are useful only as something > SL> other than software. > So, I'm the upstream author of Pigdog DeCSS > (http://www.pigdog.org/decss/), and I have received numerous emails > from people who actually use it for stripping cascading stylesheet > info from HTML pages. > So, unfortunately, it's not 100% useless. For any stupid thing chosen at random, you'll find at least 5 people on the Internet who thinks it's a good idea. (Perhaps we could call this the "simian input phenomenon".) As a result, the existence of users is not in itself evidence that something is useful. Since you're the upstream author, I'll ask: have you ever actually used this script yourself? If so... why? :) (And is the stripping of class/id attributes a bug?) -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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