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Re:Online LaTex editor by reycharles on Friday September 06, 2013 @08:15AM (#6339980)
> [...] since Knuth highly values the reproducibility of the output of all versions of TeX, any changed version must not be called TEX, TeX, or anything confusingly similar.

I have heard that to be the reason that some don't want to "fix" TeX/LaTeX.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX#License

LaTeX also has a similar clause (or whatever you call it): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX_Project_Public_License#Un...

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Re:Online LaTex editor by dbaupp on Friday September 06, 2013 @09:11AM (#6340227)
To be clear, it is allowed to be called a TeX if it passes a testsuite:

> To enforce this rule, any implementation of the system must pass a test suite called the TRIP test[39] before being allowed to be called TeX

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