2 Jun
2005
2 Jun
'05
10:13 p.m.
From: "der Mouse" <mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca>
Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 11:49 PM
The closed source Acrobat reader is available for Linux and there are
several open source packages.
The point was that anyone that wants to be able to easily handle PDF's can
do so very cheaply and are not required to deal with either Micro$loth or
Adobe.
The arguments over open source vs. closed source are side non-issues. More
to the point people complaining over Windoze being a closed system misses
the point that this group is filled with people that never gave a thought to
open source OS's when they got their classic systems.
PC's can
run either open source or closed source OS's.
Does Acrobat run under any of the open-source ones? Is Acrobat itself
free (at least as-in-beer)? And I'm still not about to sink my own
time into the rathole of sysadminning the machine, not with
closed-source software on it (even if the OS is open). I don't
know of any classic computer that came out with open source
DOS's (but a few open source monitors).
...so? None of my machines, classic or not, run the OS they came with
(if any); I'm here for the hardware, not the software, side of things.
(When I have the OS, I have a copy of it archived, but I don't do
anything with them; they're against the day when I do find a reason to,
or for a putative someone else.) /~\ The ASCII der Mouse
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