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SubjectRe: Linus Speaks About KDE-Bashing

Ick! I guess I sticking with Gimp 1.0 on my system. I dont tolerate closed
software. Period.

On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Martin Konold wrote:

> On Sun, 12 Jul 1998, Andreas Kostyrka wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> > > The non-KDE people have their lawyers call the KDE people's lawyers
> > > and the lawyers have lunch together.
> > Which will probably happen when KDE commits the first real bigger crime of
> > stealing GPL'ed code. The application set to become this is Gimp, where
> > there is already a Kimp version, but it seems not to be distributed, so
> > there is no major breach of GPL yet.
>
> Just to keep you informed. The KDE developers are in close conversation
> with several core GIMP developers about the port of GIMP to the KDE. It
> currently looks like the GIMP people will accept a --use-kde switch within
> a _unified_ GIMP source tree which will be handled by the code GIMP
> developers.
>
> These GIMP people think that it is a good idea to prevent a code split
> this way.
>
> Please note: 1.) GIMP <> GNOME
> 2.) GIMP people mainly want to provide an excellent program
> to their users not spreading FUD.
> 3.) Developers seem to be more reasonable than advocates.
> 4.) Even RMS acknowledged that linking a GPL'd app with Qt on
> at least a SuSE, Delix, Stampede or Slackware 3.5 system
> is ok.
> 5.) I personally do believe that I am entitled to roll my own
> OS whenever I would like to ;-)
>
> Yours,
> -- martin
>
> // Martin Konold, Herrenbergerstr. 14, 72070 Tuebingen, Germany //
> // Email: konold@kde.org //
> RMSisch ist schlimmer als GNUisch (die fanatisch/religioese
> Steigerung von GNUisch, daher ist GNUisch "nur" RMSisch-- ;-)
> -- Harald Koenig --
>
>
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