RE: Gnome, KDE flamebait

[Steve Homer <shomer fmco com>]

I appreciate the licencing problems, but this does not stop us sharing
standards and coding ideas (even if we can't use the exact code.) 

I'd rather not get into a licence debate here if at all possible (let's face
it we've already far *far* too many of those.) I personally consider the QT
licence sufficent for myself to use, unlike the old system which was
completely unacceptable.

I appreciate that others feel differently, but we should (and I mean all
open source or near open source developers) not cut off our noses here.

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul E. Johnson [mailto:pauljohn@ukans.edu]
Sent: 14 February 2000 16:11
To: Steve Homer
Subject: Re: Gnome, KDE flamebait


Qt is not open source, not gpl'd.  That's always been the reason that
KDE is the wrong one to use.

Steve Homer wrote:
> 
> Hi guys,
> 
> As a traditional Gnome user (who really likes some of the recent KDE
> developments) I have a few points of conversation.
> 
> Flaming on this thread as far as I am concerned is an absolute must!
Strong
> emotions can lead to clarification of issues. Let's just try and avoid
> getting personal for the sake of it. There is some incredible work being
> done on both sides, my interest is leveraging this work and
> cross-fertilization.
> 
> a) How can we make Gnome and KDE work together in a nice clean way???
> b) What are the relative advantages of both systems (dangerous question I
> know, I ask merely to see which parts of each others code would be
sensible
> to steal (one of the major advantages of GPLness))
> 
> Feel free to yell at me, if you think this post is inappropriate.
> 
> Steve.
> 
> PS I'm ducking already!
> 
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