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Re: giving money to gnome

On Thu, Nov 20, 1997 at 04:29:47PM +0100, Benedikt Eric Heinen wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> That is actually pretty normal -- just look Amaya vs. Arena vs. lynx,
> or nvi vs. vim, or FSF-GNUemacs vs. XEmacs, GTK vs. lesstif...

Of course, these are competition. But do the authors behave
competitively, or more specifically, is nvi the "direct oppononent"
of vi, for example? I wouldn't think so. Direct opponent implies enemy.
Yes, competition is good -- but considering another free
software project your enemy is bizarre.

> Assuming that the JFL CD is primarily a KDE CD that contains Debian as a
> bonus, our giving the CD money to GNOME is definetely an insult to them;

They don't seem to understand our problem though. Don't they see that
we CANNOT encourage non-DFSG software?


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