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Re: giving money to gnome

On Thu, Nov 20, 1997 at 08:39:16AM +0100, Benedikt Eric Heinen wrote:
> > > Andreas, I agree with you 100%.  This kind of antagonistic behavior toward
> > > the non-dfsg community is downright immature and, as you said, shameful!
> > Say what? One would think that we could donate to any free software
> > project we desire and it would not be "antagonistic". KDE gets half of
> > the money from the CD directly from Lehmans Bookstore. Debian gets the
> > other half, and gives it to GNOME. That sounds fair to me.
> 
> It would be fair, if you had the courage to say, that your intent isn't to 
> support a free replacement for Qt, but to help a KDE replacement.

Nobody has ever said they have a problem with KDE, have they?
Can you quote it, or provide a URL to the mailing list index?

> We ALL want to support the Debian social contract, but I don't think, that
> this contract contained any clause like 'If possible behave like a
> [excuse my french here] f***ing asshole'.

That's not only absurd, it's downright rude.

> You say, you want to support a free Qt replacement - go ahead:
> 
> 
> 		GIVE THE MONEY TO GTK!
> 
> 		GNOME ISN'T A REPLACEMENT FOR QT, IT JUST USES A
> 		FREE QT REPLACEMENT.

But giving the money to GTK won't make KDE change over to GTK,
so we still won't have a free KDE, which is what you want, isn't it?
Look, one way or another we want a GPL desktop. Giving money to GNOME/GTK
will produce one. Giving money to KDE won't help because they aren't
interested in fixing the Qt problem.



Hamish
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