Re: The destruction of Linux as GNU PL

1998-05-27 Thread Cristian Tibirna
On Wed, 27 May 1998, Michael George wrote: > > If you want something to worry about, worry about GNU software still > > using the idiosyncratic "info" format instead of switching to HTML > > years ago. > > I agree. Maybe *I'm* in the dark ages, but I prefer "man" to "info". HTML > would be a n

Re: The destruction of Linux as GNU PL

1998-05-27 Thread Michael George
> If you want something to worry about, worry about GNU software still > using the idiosyncratic "info" format instead of switching to HTML > years ago. I agree. Maybe *I'm* in the dark ages, but I prefer "man" to "info". HTML would be a natural format for manual pages, and hardly more data tha

Re: The destruction of Linux as GNU PL

1998-05-27 Thread Rich Kulawiec
1998 6:54:14 -0500 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: The destruction of Linux as GNU PL > MIME-version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > X-Mailer: TFS Gateway /221050358/221001241/221100223/221100233/ > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > X-MIME-Aut

Re: The destruction of Linux as GNU PL

1998-05-27 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 08:11:21PM +, Michael wrote: > The reasson I'm asking is that, apparanty, more and more people > are reccomending KDE and due to the license of the qt-libs one > might fear that this will mean the end to linux as we know it, with the > GNU Public Licence. Aren't there a

Re: The destruction of Linux as GNU PL

1998-05-26 Thread David E. Fox
On Tue, 26 May 1998, Michael wrote: >The reasson I'm asking is that, apparanty, more and more people >are reccomending KDE and due to the license of the qt-libs one >might fear that this will mean the end to linux as we know it, with the It's understandably unfortunate that the Qt people's licen

Re: The destruction of Linux as GNU PL

1998-05-26 Thread Jakob 'Sparky' Kaivo
On Tue, 26 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If i remember correctly, www.gnu.org has something about creating a > replacement for qt that has the normal GNU public license. Yeah, this is coming (kinda) in the form of GNOME, except GNOME is all qt is plus a bunch more. When GNOME has matured a

Re: The destruction of Linux as GNU PL

1998-05-26 Thread Chris Frost
All I can say w/o starting a huge asbestos shortage is to check out www.gnome.org. Chris <- Visit Me At http://home.hiwaay.net/~jfrost -> <-- For My Public PGP Key Visit http://home.hiwaay.net/~jfrost/pgp_key.txt --> -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVE

Re: The destruction of Linux as GNU PL

1998-05-26 Thread tyrant
If i remember correctly, www.gnu.org has something about creating a replacement for qt that has the normal GNU public license. On Tue, 26 May 1998, Michael wrote: > I'm a bit curious about what other linux-users think about KDE being > built on non-free libs. > Besides the GNOME-project, what o

Re: The destruction of Linux as GNU PL

1998-05-26 Thread Deryk Barker
Once upon a time Michael wrote: > > Hi folks ! > > I'm a bit curious about what other linux-users think about KDE being > built on non-free libs. > The reasson I'm asking is that, apparanty, more and more people > are reccomending KDE and due to the license of the qt-libs one > might fear that t

Re: The destruction of Linux as GNU PL

1998-05-26 Thread Jon A. Christopher
On Tue, 26 May 1998, Michael wrote: > Hi folks ! > > I'm a bit curious about what other linux-users think about KDE being > built on non-free libs. > The reasson I'm asking is that, apparanty, more and more people > are reccomending KDE and due to the license of the qt-libs one > might fear that

The destruction of Linux as GNU PL

1998-05-26 Thread Michael
Hi folks ! I'm a bit curious about what other linux-users think about KDE being built on non-free libs. The reasson I'm asking is that, apparanty, more and more people are reccomending KDE and due to the license of the qt-libs one might fear that this will mean the end to linux as we know it, wit