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Re: giving money to gnome

On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:

> jfl, a german bookstore, will release a cdrom with debian, contrib,
> non-free, "linux anwenderhandbuch", maybe a commercial webbrowser,
> and kde. they will donate 5 dm, half for debian and half for kde.
> 
> freedom is not only a word for me. its an essential thing, not only
> found in free speach or free software. 
> 
> in their freedom to choose a library for their project, the kde
> developers selected qt. i'm not happy with that, but everyone should
> have the right to do so. 
> 
> bruce announced on friday, that the money from this
> debian+kde cdrom should be given to the gnome project.
> 
> as the gnome project is the direct opponent of kde, this is an insult to
> the kde people. at least that is how the kde developer feel.
> 
> today i feel a shamed to be a debian developer.
> 
> i request to apologize and correct the relations to the kde team within
> a week. if not i prefer not to be a debian developer.
> 
I honestly don't understand your position. I agree that the kde developers
are free to choose what they want. Why does that remove our freedom to do
what we wish? They offered the money to support Debian, with no strings
attatched as to how we should spend it. We are disapointed in their choice
of library, why is it bad that they be disapointed in how we spend the
money?

There is no need to view these interactions in terms of "battles", or
other contentious interactions. Both groups run free of entanglements from
the other. What could be more appropriate?

Luck,

Dwarf
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