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Subject:    what linus says
From:       Navindra Umanee <navindra () cs ! mcgill ! ca>
Date:       1998-11-17 11:00:16
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Offtopic?  Good to see some more support and encouragement for all the
efforts you KDE folks have put into KDE, I think.

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From: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
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Subject: Re: Who has the hearts and mindshare of X developer Gnome or KDE?
Date: 16 Nov 1998 21:40:11 GMT
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In article <72opv3$d4t@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>,
Navindra Umanee  <navindra@cs.mcgill.ca> wrote:
> David M. Cook <davecook@home.com> wrote:
> > Since the KDE folks do not have control over their chosen toolkit, I'd go
> > with GNOME.
> 
> That aside, actually they do have some control seeing that at least 1
> of the main KDE developers now works for Troll.  Also, notice how much
> has been done in KDE without any control over Qt (floating toolbars,
> coolbars, themes, whatever you name it).  

More importantly, pretty much everybody seems to agree that KDE is
actually the much nicer desktop system. 

I personally am very disgusted by people who advocate inferior products
for purely political reasons.  If it's inferior, you should work on
making it better, but advocating it only because it happens to have the
copyright of your choice is WRONG. 

That kind of advocacy just makes all GPL projects look bad.  If a GPL
project cannot hold its own on technical terms, there is _no_ excuse for
using political means to try to further it in the minds of people.  The
GPL is supposed to inherently result in better products - it is not
supposed to be used as a weapon against the competition. 

I personally think that KDE and Qt are both excellent products, and I
shiver every time I see some idiot trying to slam them just because the
authors of Qt had a different copyright. 

		Linus
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