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    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: owner-linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
    > [mailto:owner-linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu]On Behalf Of Brandon S.
    > Allbery KF8NH
    > Sent: Monday, July 13, 1998 12:42 AM
    > To: Kristian Koehntopp
    > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
    > Subject: Re: Linus Speaks About KDE-Bashing
    >
    >
    > Seeing as how the KDE vs. GNOME thread apparently really *is* the most
    > important thing ever to happen in the world of Linux and must be
    > forced on
    > everyone involved with it (now I remember why I left the Linux
    > community.
    > Thanks, folks.)....
    >
    > In message <m0yvRUy-001D8bC@valiant.koehntopp.de>, Kristian
    > Koehntopp writes:
    > +-----
    > | In netuse.lists.linux-kernel you write:
    > | >If the interfaces
    > | >standardize, end users will end up mixing GPL'ed and
    > non-GPL'ed components
    > | >all over the place. There are hints of this in the Windows
    > world already
    > | Actually, this is already happing today, whenever dynamic
    > | linking is used to load a propietary application and load it on
    > | a GPLed operating system or whenever a propietary operating
    > | system loads GPLed code.
    > +--->8
    >
    > More than that. Quite a bit of GNU software is available on OS/2, and an
    > ever-growing amount on Win32 platforms --- both of which access
    > the actual
    > OS (not just an interface library such as libc, mind you, but
    > actual system
    > calls) as one or more DLLs. (In OS/2 it's DOSCALL1.DLL.) Are all such
    > ports illegal, then? If not, how does it differ from a Solaris
    > distribution
    > that ships with Motif --- much less a Linux distribution which
    > ships with Qt?
    >
    > Wake me up when everyone wakes up and starts working on Linux again ---
    > don't bother if you all manage to drown the Open Source concept
    > in a sea of
    > recriminations.
    >
    >
    > --
    > brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh]
    > allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
    > system administrator [WAY too many hats]
    > allbery@ece.cmu.edu
    > electrical and computer engineering
    > carnegie mellon university (bsa@kf8nh is
    > still valid.)
    >
    >
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