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List:       kde-licensing
Subject:    Re: [freeqt] Re: FreeQt concerns
From:       Kevin Forge <forgeltd () usa ! net>
Date:       1998-04-07 12:38:02
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Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > > It's a fine thing. Troll Tech are a commerical organisation in a capitalist
> > > world. If a rival product free or otherwise sends them under then they were
> > > inferior and should have vanished. Thats the capitalist ethos.
> > >
> > Troll Tech has not done anything to hurt Linux, nor do they display an
> > intention to hurt Linux.  Therefore we should not attack them.  The only
> 
> Nobody is attacking anyone. By your argument KDE is hurting all the people
> who produce CDE for Linux, and Caldera who have invested in Visix Looking
> Glass (aka OpenDesktop). Linux is harming SCO, Linux is the main reason
> Mark Williams Company (Coherent) no longer exists.
>
Big difference ... none of those companies gave us source code to the 
products and invited us to use it.  You are still missing my point.  If
Troll Tech were done in by GNOME or some other neat toolkit then big 
deal, Who cares ?  If they were killed by a QT clone however that would
make us as bad as Microsoft.
>
> Welcome to planet earth.
> 
> Alan

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