Nate Bargmann writes:
> The Debian Project, itself a part of the GNU project, or at least tightly
> affiliated with it...

Debian was briefly affiliated with the FSF at the beginning but the
association was dissolved before 1.1 came out.

> A few years later, TrollTech changed the license on Qt to the "more free"
> GPL thus leapfrogging the "lesser" LGPL.  Despite this...

Despite what?  Both are completely DFSG compliant.  There is no question of
one being "more free" than the other.

> ...old attitudes have been slow to change and Debian, for whatever
> reason(s), still prefers GNOME over KDE at installation.

The reason is that there is no reason to change.  One or the other has to
be the default: should we toss a coin?
-- 
John Hasler


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