Re: Redhat and Tetex
David Kastrup <[email protected]>
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Tim Waugh <[email protected]> writes: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:38:19AM +0000, Robin Fairbairns wrote: > > > why should the tex community be involved in a commercial > > organisation? i've been using tetex 2 in this department for a > > _long_ time, and tetex's gone through at least one (possibly 2) > > full new versions since then. what on earth more do you want? ... > > i'm almost beginning to believe that you really are seeking more > > fly-by-night software. > > If there is a newer version than 2.0.2, please let me know where. > Our tetex RPM package (yes, the one in Fedora -- which incidentally > feeds into the commercial Red Hat Enterprise Linux products, see > http://fedora.redhat.com/about/faq/) was updated to 2.0.2 in March. By the way: about a year back, since I was so appalled with the state of RedHat's general TeX support, I contacted some managers specified to be responsible for recruiting, and offered to take up its continued maintenance for a reasonable fee, as it was obvious that nobody in-house knew enough to care. I did not even get a reply. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum