Arandir wrote:
>
> On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Akintayo Holder wrote:
> >Michael Stearne wrote:
> >>
> >> Which is better, KDE or gnome?
> >
> >KDE is older (started first) and is further along than GNOME which has
> >yet to reach version 1 (0.99.8). GNOME was created because KDE is based
> >on the Qt library which is non-free, thus GNOME is a free (from ground
> >up) replacement of KDE.
> >
>
> A pernicious myth! (about Qt and thus KDE not being free, that is)
KDE is GPL but Qt was not free originally, hence GNU created GNOME.
Since then Troll has taken steps to make Qt more free. Some people still
do not consider it free enough.
>
> Go to Qt's home page at www.troll.no. Also check out KDE's
> argument at www.kde.org. Does a library have to follow the LGPL
> letter-for-letter in order for it to be free? The current version
> (1.42) allows me to develop freely for free software. The next version
> (2.0) will have an extremely liberal license.
>
> The fact that I can't (currently) use this library to freely create
> non-free commercial software is immaterial to me. Every line of code in
> the KDE project is GPL'd.
>
> The statement that GNOME is meant to be a replacement for KDE is wrong.
> Just read the GNOME FAQ.
Whatever man.
>
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> Arandir...
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