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List:       kde-freeqt
Subject:    Re: [freeqt] something major shaping up at troll tech?
From:       mosfet <mosfet () jorsm ! com>
Date:       1998-11-18 2:22:34
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I know. No one seems to know what it is tho. Here's the last message for the
curious:

On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Bruce Perens wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Everybody knows I've been a strident critic of KDE because of the Qt
>license, perhaps I've been _too_ strident. Because of the progress I am
>now seeing, I feel sure that KDE will soon be Open Source(tm) by my own
>definition. Thus, I don't think there's any need for me to criticize KDE
>any longer.
>
>Thus, this is a peace offering. I'll not bother you folks any more.
>Once a truly Open Source KDE is available, I will publicly endorse it.
>
>I'd be happy to buy any of you a beer if we happen to meet in the future.
>That could be a lot of beers, but it's worth it.

A bit premature, Bruce, but thanks anyway :-)

Everybody else: stay tuned, I'll tell you tomorrow.


Matthias


>
>        Thanks
>
>        Bruce Perens
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>offsets the $5 Trillion national debt.
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On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, you wrote:
>Something is going on at troll tech.  I'm not quite sure what it is, but
>it has something to do with open source.
>
>Check out today's messages on kde-list by Bruce Perens and Matthias
>Ettrich.
>
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> -Preston Brown
>  Red Hat Software, Inc.
>  pbrown@redhat.co
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