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Re: Inappropriate advocacy
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Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: Inappropriate advocacy |
Date: |
Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:48:52 +0900 |
Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
>> When tech geekers speak of TeX, they often speak of in the domain of
>> mathematical knowledge presentation and publishing. In the math
>> knowledge presentation, i am a expert, and personally known that
>> <proprietary product> is a ORDER OF MAGNITUDE better than TeX.
>
> Everybody is asked not to advocate non-free products on the GNU
> mailing-lists/newsgroups, even when on-topic. There are other forums
> where one can do this (e.g. comp.emacs).
On the other hand, a recommendation by Xahlee ("i am a expert"
... heehee) is generally considered a strong negative, so maybe it
should be ok for him?
Kinda like every politician wants Al Quaeda to endorse their opponent...
-Miles
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- Re: Inappropriate advocacy [Was: wikipedia's (ascii) math notation? emacs easy-way to translate it?], Xah Lee, 2008/12/04
- Re: wikipedia's (ascii) math notation? emacs easy-way to translate it?, G. A. Edgar, 2008/12/04
- Re: wikipedia's (ascii) math notation? emacs easy-way to translate it?, Xah Lee, 2008/12/04
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