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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE-1.1.2: Comments on all-new Wallpapers
From:       Gary Meyer <gary () meyer ! net>
Date:       1999-09-06 18:29:35
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Images of hemp will not help get KDE or Linux into corporate America.
Although others may not, I do want KDE to be taken seriously by that
group.  Like it or not, corporate IT decision makers don't work off
technical merit alone.  IMHO, hemp only increases the FUD that these
people already have for open source software.

-- Gary

"Ewald R. de Wit" wrote:

> dep (dep@westnet.com) wrote:
> > it's not about freedom. it's about being taken seriously.
>
> Do you really want to be taken seriously by people who are offended
> by a photo of a hemp plant?
>
> KDE will be taken seriously because of it's technical merit and not
> because of it's compliance to American policically correct window
> dressing.
>
> It's a bit like when Linus decided to leave the foul language in
> the linux source tree.
>
> --
>   --  Ewald

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