[tex-live] Bug#477060: Bug#477060: [Barbara Beeton] texlive license

Frank Küster frank at debian.org
Fri Apr 25 23:03:05 CEST 2008


Barbara Beeton <bnb at ams.org> wrote:

> that would make us rather unhappy as well, but
> if it happens, it can't be helped.  our staff is
> just too small and too overwhelmed with production
> deadlines to be able to devote the time solely to
> getting the new release of ams-latex ready.

I understand and hope that our release team will have understanding,
too. 

> our hope is that, barring disasters, the update
> of ams-latex -- all of it -- will be ready by
> the end of the calendar year.  (but unfortunately,
> we must allow for disasters; this past year has
> been spent migrating book and journal production
> from vms to unix, involving retraining of the
> entire editorial and production staff.

>From what I know from vms, migrating non-geek staff who's used to the
old ways for their whole computer-aware lifetime should be quite
hard... 

Happy TeXing,
Frank
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Frank Küster
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)


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