On Friday 06 July 2001 02:30, Lambrecht Joris wrote: > While digging thru a google queryresult on Mailclients i stumbled > across this archived mail . . . the birth of KDE ? It's pretty old > Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 15:19:00 +0100 (MET) > > http://www.via.ecp.fr/lyx/archive/9610/msg00368.html > > Anyway, thought it was kinda cool. > > Forgive me, i'm getting much to sentimental right now.
Hmm, assuming the authenticity of the mail: it just confirms my theories about the origin of the KDE/Gnome schism. The mail, a post to the lyx list, was from Matthias Ettrich, from an email address that's as German (and hence European) as you could get (informatik.uni-tuebingen.de). The poster didn't dwell on the "free-ness" of qt. He just wanted to create a really "Kool" desktop environment. Which is understandable from a non-American perspective. The initial Gnome reaction is also understandable. Cosmopolitan America is an inherently litigious village, and so using the qt library might have been more than a simple matter of scruples. Better safe than sued.
