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What questions they dare to ask?

Shouldn’t some people really be ashamed of what questions they dare to ask?

It’s been a week I looked at the itext mailing list, and 2 mails really stood out to me because I could have a good laugh (shame on me for laughing)

Code WTF’s
1. someone trying to set a static final variable: http://itext-general.2136553.n4.nabble.com/dialog-to-select-pdf-to-import-td3779993.html

Noob Alert
2 .Do you know what a servlet is? A web application? Tomcat? If not, you’re building a house starting from the rooftop.
http://itext-general.2136553.n4.nabble.com/newbie-Web-page-to-call-itext-Hello-java-td3781877.html
( at least Steve warns/admits ‘newbie’ and he seems willing to learn. But he received a brilliant answer )

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Mailinglist mails on itext-questions

Sometimes we receive things like:

Dear all,
Fedora packagers have one big problem. The code is licensing on AGPL for
all this project?

regards

By Gossling, they have only 1 big problem, they are lucky !

How do we react to that… saying yes it’s AGPL. And saying they are lucky to have only one problem. The problem isn’t even explained.

Do I care that Fedora packagers have problem? no not really. I even wonder why the hell they want to package iText® in a linux distro. It’s a Java library, application deployers/developers add it to their lib folder or application server library folder, (or even add it through OSGI now). I’ve never used in linux distro embeded java libraries. I add them myself (preferably with maven) then I know what has been added.

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