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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Siep Kroonenberg wrote :<br>
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Answers usually come from people working in the field, not from
higher-ups.</pre>
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But that is exactly what we need, is it not ?<br>
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Your mail suggests that someone is already spending time on this,
has downloaded, installed and explored Visual Studio and other
resources, and given thought to strategies how to circumvent the
store restrictions, and browsed e.g technet- and stackoverflow sites
for answers and workarounds; and that this someone would be willing
to co-sign this mail.</pre>
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I do not know how you arrived at that conclusion. Omitting
irrelevant parts, the draft reads :<br>
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<pre wrap="">Having consulted the technical guidelines [hyperlink not possible in plain text]
describing the constraints placed on a program
which is to run in S-mode, TeX's development/implementation team are
very concerned that because (for example) TeX makes widespread use
of CMD.exe, that in itself is sufficient reason for TeX to be
disbarred.</pre>
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Where in that can you see any suggestion that "someone is already
spending time on this,<br>
has downloaded, installed and explored Visual Studio and other<br>
resources, and given thought to strategies how to circumvent the<br>
store restrictions, and browsed e.g technet- and stackoverflow sites<br>
for answers and workarounds; and that this someone would be willing<br>
to co-sign this mail" ?<br>
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Philip Taylor<br>
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