[mythtv-users] A new theme on the way...

[Christopher Meredith]

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Robert McNamara
<robert.mcnamara at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Christopher Meredith
> <chmeredith at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Nicolas Will <nico at youplala.net> wrote:
>>> I'm with Robert on this one.
>>>
>>> He makes a theme that everybody agrees to call beyond great.
>>>
>>> Fine.
>>>
>>> The theme need a specific font that has a cost to bring the greatness.
>>>
>>> Fine too.
>>>
>>> The license chosen by Robert forbids you to distribute derivative work,
>>> possibly "make" too, but I am too lazy to dig through a long thread.
>>>
>>> Also very fine.
>>>
>>> Three choices there.
>>>
>>>     1. You use the theme after having paid for the font. You enjoy a
>>>        great theme. You're legal. You respect the author.
>>>     2. You use the theme after tweaking it to use a sub-par font and
>>>        keep it to yourself. You enjoy a sub-par theme, your loss.
>>>        You're legal. You do not respect the author.
>>
>> This does not follow at all. How is it possible that someone can say
>> "If you do X, then you disrespect me" and it then becomes true? And
>> who defines what is sub-par? Who knows, I might make it better? And if
>> you disagree with me, you disrespect me and should feel guilty.
>
> I'm fairly certain he meant you are not respecting the wishes of the
> author, not an implied personal judgment.

I can live with that. I want to reiterate the important distinction
between disagreement and disrespect. There are many people with whom I
don't agree on everything, yet for whom I have the utmost respect.
Robert, I respect you a great deal, yet I do not agree that a
proprietary font is an indispensable component of a media center UI.
In my personal opinion, the ratio of art to utility in a font is not
enough to justify licensing a font for which I would have no other
use. This disagreement should not compel the conclusion that I
disrespect you.