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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Name changes to X Applications?
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () suse ! de>
Date:       1999-11-08 9:46:07
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On Sat, 06 Nov 1999, Mosfet wrote:

> You haven't participated yet. You have forked KDE into your own "Corel"
> version. That is not participation. You also haven't done anything
> illegal. But Corel has acted in a way one would expect a proprietary
> software company to act: By taking the fruits of other people's labors,
> totally neglecting to contact them, coordinate with them, or ask their
> permission to make changes, and modifying them with no regard to the
> project maintaining this code. If this is how Windows based companies
> are going to handle free software it would be better for them not to
> participate in Linux.

Well said.

Cheers,
Waldo

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