On Wed, Nov 19, 1997 at 05:59:54PM +0100, Christian Leutloff wrote: > Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> writes: > > their decision to use Debian as the underlying OS in a non-free > > project, > > That's wrong! Debian is an *add on* to the KDE CD. KDE is not based > on Debian in any way. Well, if you want a whole operating environment, you need a desktop and an OS. Debian is the OS, KDE the desktop. You can run Debian without KDE, but you need an OS to run KDE. So Debian is, as I said, the underlying OS in the KDE-CD. > Emilio Lopes <Emilio.Lopes@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE> writes: > > AJ> as the gnome project is the direct opponent of kde, this is an > > ~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~ > > Uh?? Is that your view or the KDE people's view? Sure this is not the > > way the GNOME people see KDE. > > Please read the announcement for GNOME. It *is* a new desktop > environment. And therefor the result will be able to replace KDE ... It's a said day when you consider one free software project to be in COMPETITION with another. > Sure, but we *say* we will use the money we get from one project to > support a replacement project. That's not nice at all. Instead we It's not nice that the KDE people would even make this their business. > should say that we'll remove the non-free character from KDE by > removing the need for Qt. Therefor we should say, that we support the > development of a free Qt. The focus should be on the lib and not on > the desctop environment. Why don't the KDE people make an effort to change the library, if they recognise the problem? It shouldn't be too hard to write a wrapper to emulate Qt anyway. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust hamish@debian.org, hmoffatt@mail.com Student, computer science & computer systems engineering. 3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP key here) CPOM: [****** ] 60% The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. --Bohr
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