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Re: giving money to gnome

On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, Benedikt Eric Heinen wrote:

> Fine, but you have to admit that you're also helping GNOME "against" KDE
> with money we get due to our distribution being on a KDE CD!
> 
> Ever thought, that gestures can be powerful insults as well? And we're
> making one hell of a gesture here.

The Lehman sales are donating half of its donation (poor wording, but
you'll get the point) to debian and the other half to KDE. Some have
stated that it is an insult to not give our donation to KDE. Are KDE and
Lehman affiliated (I didn't catch this at the start)? 

1) If they are affiliated, then why would Lehman/KDE give us money and
expect us to give it back? That sounds more like an informal contract than
a donation.

2) If they are not, then why would KDE be insulted at our choice of use
for donations from Lehman? KDE knows our contract and policy (I am
assuming) and therefore must realize we will always support free software
first. 

The only way I could ever see this as an insult is if KDE was putting
their money towards the development of a free replacement library and we
didn't try to help them out (that even seems thin to me).

Can someone explain where I am wrong?

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