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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Arthur Reutenauer wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 04:33:58PM +0000, Philip Taylor wrote:
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<pre wrap="">George N. White III wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I doubt the open source community will have any impact on the marketing of cheap
Windows 10 S boxes.
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I completely agree with that analysis, which is one reason why my draft letter makes no mention of "Open Source".
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No, you don’t. George is implying that since TeX users are part of the open
source community, they (we) won’t have any impact on the distribution of
Windows 10 S. You seem to think that we could wield great influence on
Microsoft in some undefined way.</pre>
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I have no idea what George is <i>implying</i>, any more than you
do. What George writes is "I doubt the open source community will
have any impact on the marketing of cheap <br>
Windows 10 S boxes", and I completely agree with that analysis. The
fact that some parts of the whole TeX infrastructure are open-source
is (a) completely irrelevant, and (b) unlikely to carry any weight
whatsoever with Microsoft. Microsoft are <i>not</i> a part of the
open-source community, and probably have very little interest in
it. What <i>may </i>carry weight with Microsoft is that
(literally) millions of people use TeX world-wide, and a substantial
fraction of those use Windows.<br>
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<pre wrap="">I would supplement that advising those who are in a position to do so to resist Windows 10 at all costs, and to stay with Windows 7 for as long as possible.
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You seem to have painted yourself in a corner of your own.</pre>
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Like every other user of Microsoft Windows, I could "upgrade" if I
so chose; I choose not to, because everything from Windows 8 onwards
(to date, at least) represents an evolutionary step (nay, leap)
backwards.<br>
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Philip Taylor<br>
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