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[Hans Hagen]

At 04:23 PM 2/8/2002 -0700, Richard Stallman wrote:
>     Distiller Server 5.0 (announced in December) supports Sun Solaris
>     and RedHat Linux, so there is hope indeed... See:
> 
>http://Sun.SystemNews.com/system-news/jobdir/submitted/2002.02/5418/5418.html
>
>Is that free software?  A non-free program is not a solution in the
>Free World.

well, non-free food, non-free medicine, non-free transportation, non-free 
entering countries, non-free anything either -)

so, unless someone finds enough free time to write a huge thing like a free 
distiller and keep it up-to-date ...

Hans

PS. The free version of GS often suits our needs quite well, so if we can 
live with the delay in implementing features between GS and distiller we 
are already served quite well on all those platforms.
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