-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Nicholas, On Sunday 13 April 2003 20:21, Nicholas Parsons wrote:
of software reuse. I believe that the Gnome project was started for fear that the QT library that KDE relies on would go proprietary.
When Gnome was started, Qt was licensed under what some considered a non-Free license; subsequently Qt was GPLd and the KDE Free Qt Foundation was set up to ensure that if TrollTech stopped developing Qt for some reason, or wanted to release it under a non-Free license again, the last GPLd version of Qt would be released under the BSD license (an extremely liberal license) where it could be maintained by KDE developers or other interesed parties. http://www.kde.org/whatiskde/qt.php http://www.kde.org/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation.php
Now that is clearly not a issue but the 2 sides have squared off against each other. Personally I don't use either at present.
Despite flame wars in the past, KDE and GNOME developers now generally get on very well with other and co-operate on numerous issues, see freedesktop.org. There's no way that you can please everybody -- that's why we don't all drive the same kind of car or wear the same size shoes. Different things are good at different things, and the "one size fits all" approach doesn't work.
I like using windowmaker at home.
As a KDE developer, I fully respect your right to choose. - -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- chris@chrishowells.co.uk, howells@kde.org Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP ID: 33795A2C KDE: http://www.koffice.org, http://printing.kde.org, http://usability.kde.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+mbq9F8Iu1zN5WiwRAjJ9AKCPN0KhDHA/6eBtThwzNYyXy6ItNQCcC/Na CZO52zL3f/G04nVp4XiEwK4= =5dtG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----