Hey Bruce,
> You should be aware that we have a little problem with KDE. It uses Qt,
> which isn't free software by Debian's definition. For this reason,
Yes I saw your post the other day regarding the alternatives. Is GNOME
usable as a day to day solution yet? I noticed that there isn't a Debi
On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Adam Shand wrote:
> Maybe I'm missing something here (possibly the enormity of the battle on
> 'our' hands... and I mean that seriously) but it seems to me that by
> choosing against something like KDE (which to all intents and purposes
> *is* free software to the end user) we
> Hey Bruce,
>
> > You should be aware that we have a little problem with KDE. It uses Qt,
> > which isn't free software by Debian's definition. For this reason,
[.. lots removed ..]
> Maybe I'm missing something here (possibly the enormity of the battle on
> 'our' hands... and I mean that serio
> The problem with this is that, if we were to embrace KDE now,
> we implicidly also say "Programming for Qt is good", and thus
> more people start programming for Qt. Then when GNOME/Berlin/WhatEver
> comes out, we cannot switch anymore.
Hmmm... not sure I buy that... but it's an interesting twis
You should be aware that we have a little problem with KDE. It uses Qt,
which isn't free software by Debian's definition. For this reason,
we are looking very hard at several upcoming replacements for KDE, and
will probably designate one as our preferred graphical desktop when it
is ready. If I had
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