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List:       kde-licensing
Subject:    Re: Change ?
From:       Roberto Alsina <ralsina () unl ! edu ! ar>
Date:       1998-03-10 15:21:57
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On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Olivier Galibert wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 10, 1998 at 12:54:17PM +0100, Gaël Duval wrote:
> > First they tell they will never make a complete clone of Qt.I was told there are
> > 30 000 lines of code in Qt. It's big.
> 
> But then, there are already more than 10K lines written.

But then Qt is about 80.000 lines.
Of course it still makes more sense than cloning the 400.000 lines in KDE.

> > Secondly, I think you are right, but *why* did the Gnome
> > team decided to clone KDE instead of cloning Qt ?
> 
> Because kde was smaller at the time.

Because they counted the lines wrong. At the time of GNOME's 
announcement, the KDE sources were over 200.000 lines of code.
And of course KDE was expected to grow much faster than Qt, so even if it 
was smaller it was still wrong.

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