Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 14 Jul 1998 00:01:37 -0600 | | From | Richard Stallman <> | | Subject | Re: Linus Speaks About KDE-Bashing |
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I'm not against making GIMP work better with KDE. I just don't think we need to link with qt to do it.
I think that is a good idea, to cooperate with the KDE developers in this way. It would be good to avoid a fork in the GIMP, and good to avoid ill will between two groups of free software developers.
The KDE developers fell into a pitfall--Qt was the bait--and as a result their work can't be included in a wholly free operating system. This was a serious mistake, but we all make mistakes. To hold it against them would be our mistake.
What we should do, instead of blaming, is spread the understanding of why this is a mistake, so that other people won't do the same thing.
By the way, someone said that we "accepted silently" the practice of using Motif. That is not what happened. Back in the 1980s the GNU project was already urging people not to use Motif, and encouraging people to write a free replacement for it. Eventually someone did.
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