Messages in this thread | | | From | "Andrey Berezin" <> | Subject | RE: Linus Speaks About KDE-Bashing | Date | Tue, 14 Jul 1998 15:51:07 +0400 |
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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.) > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.altern.org/andrebalsa/doc/lkml-faq.html > >
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