[techtalk] GUI's

[Laurel Fan]

Excerpts from linuxchix: 20-Oct-99 Re: [techtalk] GUI's  by
Brendan/Coolian at thecia.n 
> I've been trying to follow the whole KDE/GNOME fiasco, and I was seeing 
> down the road GNOME merging with KDE, because of the whole licensing 
> resolution with the QT 2.0 set.  It's now perfectly GPL, I thought and the 
> point of the GNOME project was based on that non-free piece of code being 
> included in KDE.

I don't see that. The codebases of GNOME and KDE are significantly
different such that it's not possible | worth it to merge them, and
there's no reason to toss either one of them out.  It might have been
about licenses in the beginning, but there are architectural, technical,
philosophical differences. There's really not a Right Way to do these
types of things..

(btw, Qt is not GPL.  It might be free, but it's not GPL.  The annoying
thing about free *PLs is that they are usually incompatible with the GPL
and each other.)

Anyway, I don't think there's anything wrong with having a choice of
desktop environment.


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