Re: [Gnome-print] Re: [Gimp-print-devel] An introduction to gnome-print (fwd)

[Lauris Kaplinski <lauris kaplinski com>]

On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Robert L Krawitz wrote:

>    Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 00:47:06 +0200 (CEST)
>    From: Lauris Kaplinski <lauris@kaplinski.com>
> 
>    > What you really should do is discuss any perceived shortcomings of
>    > PostScript with Adobe.
> 
>    Yes. But we should not try to convince Adobe improving PostScript,
>    but instead do that ourselves.  It time to take standard away from
>    the hands of evil corporation :)
> 
> I've heard of using a sledgehammer to kill a fly; I've never heard of
> using a flyswatter to kill an elephant.
> 
> I'm sorry, but this just about takes the cake for sheer nonsense.
> Adobe may control the PostScript standard, but it is very well
> specified, it's under active development, and Adobe's doing a good job
> with it.  Exactly how do you propose to "take the standard away" from
> Adobe?

Implement it The Right Way (TM) in GhostScript, doing away with all legacy
stuff. This should be sufficent (just the cathedral/bazaar style thing).

But this thread has gone horribly off-topic ;)

Lauris