AN interseting delema Re: gEDA-user: wxPCB Goals

[Steve Meier <smeier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

OK, so person A uses a program which isn't open and creates a file which
uses an open format. Would we reject the file? I think not. If the use
of the program that person A uses requires the use of a non-open file
format to generate the resultant open file.... Well then we might.

This is why men of my age end up with grey hairs... ok besides the fact
that we might also have daughters who are turning into teenagers. And
sons who don't do the home work they are supposed to be doing. It is
damn hard to be an anarchist and a parent.

Steve Meier



 Bob Paddock wrote:
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> On 12/2/05, *Al Davis* <ad82@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:ad82@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
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>     On Wednesday 30 November 2005 08:37 pm, Bob Paddock wrote:
>     > I will probably in the end use HelpBlocks to make the manual,
>     > as it does seemed better suited to that job than DoxyGen.
>     > http://www.helpblocks.com/
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>     Please don't.  It is not free software.
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> The output of HelpBlocks is HTML, so if someone wants to contribute
> something
> they can contribute it as HTML and I will integrate it.  As I
> mentioned before the Block tools are good for setting up initial
> program templates, I do the rest with EMACS which has always been free.
>
> I believe in the Utopian Hacker Ethic (See Steven Levy's classic book:
> "Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution"):
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> "All information should be free",
>
> programs too, but until we reach Utopia  if a commercial program saves
> me time, or makes debugging easier, then it is worth the investment. 
> We all have far less time than money, as money is replaceable, time is
> not.
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> That being said I have only ever bought two commercial programs the
> Block tool package,
> and Gimpel's Lint, http://www.gimpel.com/ .   Both have saved me
> countless hours of time in software development.
>
> http://www.splint.org/ is an Open Source Lint like program, but I
> still find Gimple's to be superior. 
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