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Re: Screw non-free.



On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 03:33:20PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 02:19:17AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 09:35:32AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > > More and more interesting non-free software isn't suitable even for
> > > non-free.  Examples include:
> > >   o Acrobat Reader
> > >   o Sun Java SDK
> > There's likely no fundamental problems stopping us from making non-free
> > acceptable to those sorts of upstreams.
> a) Acrobat Reader: What's wrong with xpdf? 

It's got a horrible kludgy interface. I usually use gv, and only use
xpdf for the few things gv doesn't parse correctly. The specific programs
aren't really the issue though.

Cheers,
aj

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