Re: Official protest against bug 1060 / was: Re: Away for a fewdays..

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.