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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: GNOME Desktop Project
From:       Bernd Johannes Wuebben <wuebben () math ! cornell ! edu>
Date:       1997-09-11 11:00:29
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????

Mario, please tell me this mail is not from you.

Bernd
wuebben@kde.org


>A few weeks ago you replied this to a mail from Bernd Johannes Wuebben.
>I've to say that you are right: Bernd's response seemed to be
>really rude. It seems he doesn't really want to publish his programs
>under GPL. 
>
>2 month ago I talked to BJW and told him I want to write a accounting
>feature for kppp - he agreed but said he doesn't want to have
>co-authors on kppp. I agreed (mainly because I think PPP accounting is a
>very good thing - especially if you live in Europe where you've to pay for
>phone lines :-(. I wrote the accounting module for kppp and sent it to
>BJW. Then he removed my name from all source files (ok, he gave me
>credit in the "About" dialog. Interesting enough, he did'nt remove the
>credit lines from the files his brother wrote). I found that very
>annoying and that this is really bad attitude.
>
>However, I've seen that you're writing a dialer for GNOME. Maybe
>you are interested in the accounting module from kppp. I think it would
>be a good idea to reuse it (because it uses a simple text file
>describing accounting rules, there are already some from Italy, Spain,
>Austria, Germany...).
>
>Best regards,
>Mario Weilguni
>
>PS: please consider this to be private mail - I do not want to
>begin an email war with Bernd.

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