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List:       kde-licensing
Subject:    Linus Speaks About KDE-Bashing
From:       Steve Hutton <shutton () gte ! net>
Date:       1998-07-11 0:01:52
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This may be of interest to some here.
(I have just posted it to c.o.l.a. as well)

>Subject: Re: KDE/GNOME Holy Wars: Can you help?
>Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 11:00:21 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
>To: Steve Hutton <shutton@gte.net>

>On Fri, 10 Jul 1998, Steve Hutton wrote:
>>
>> At this point it is certain that neither KDE
>> or GNOME is going to go away in the near future.
>> The question is whether they will ever co-exist
>> in peace.  It is my personal belief that the
>> backlash against KDE has been a bit too harsh:

>Personally, I like KDE better than gnome right now, on the strength of
>pretty user interface and it working better. I personally use neither,
>though. I know there has been a lot of silly license flamage, and I don't
>particularly like it.

>My opinion on licenses is that "he who writes the code gets to chose his
>license, and nobody else gets to complain". Anybody complaining about a
>copyright license is a whiner.

>The anti-KDE people are free to write their own code, but they don't have
>the moral right to complain about other people writing other code. I
>despise people who do complain, and I won't be sucked into the argument.
>But feel free to forward this as you see fit.

>                Linus
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