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Re: KDE and Qt to become completely opensource (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gordon Messmer)
Tue Nov 24 19:34:48 1998
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 16:30:43 -0800
From: Gordon Messmer <yinyang@eburg.com>
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Zoki wrote:
>
> This is from Evan on the Caldera list. Maybe interesting news for Red Hat
> HQ to rethink their strategy.
While I think that this has been covered, I'd like to say (I didn't
before) that I sincerly hope not. KDE 1.0 is a nightmare. I've
introduced several of my coworkers to it, to quickly have them find
bugs. My only explanation has been:
I don't intend to have you run it all the time, it's just a stepping
stone if you're not comfortable with other desktops.
Charlie switched to afterstep the next day! Currently no one uses kde
where I work. I don't want to discourage anyone, or spread FUD. I
just don't think that KDE deserved the 1.0 when it got it.
Also, a comment:
> Indeed, this move offers a new challenge to Gnome -- while it promises
> features unavailable in KDE, if is remains vapourware for too long it
> risks becoming irrelevant by the time it comes out. Then again, what's to
> stop KDE developers from buiding-in Gnome's extra functionality? Since Qt
> will be opensourced (KDE always has been), their developers will legally
> be able to incoporate Gnome code.
>
Nothing has ever existed that would prevent KDE developers from
incorporating GNOME features. The GNOME developers have, in fact,
encouraged them to do so! Those features could have been built into
kdelib, but in many cases, KDE developers have decided not to do so.
If I'm wrong here, I'd certainly welcome others' comments.
MSG
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