From kde-promo Sat Jun 09 03:39:49 2001 From: blackfarm Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 03:39:49 +0000 To: kde-promo Subject: Re: [kde-promo] Speaking of the KDE league... X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-promo&m=99205810924920 There was nothing miss leading about saying that commercial apps are getting the shaft. You act as if there is an over load of story's and you could'nt fit in "another" commercial app story in there. The truth is sometimes the same story is on the dot all week long. If we're lucky we might see two stories. So i think everyone knows that there is no shortage of space for application announcements. I think its obvious that theres a sort of hacker elitist prejudice against commercial ventures. This stuberness against commercial software is hurting KDE. The ability to choose between developing closed or open source with QT is a strength of the Qt license. That choice does not exist on the other side of the fence. This should be one of our talking points. Instead we let the Richard Stallmens out there make us play down our strength and become embarrassed by it. The choice that exists with the Qt license is the major advantage of kde. Lets not let the competition frighten us and make us ashamed of our KDE commercial side. Thats what they want to make us ashamed of our strength. You can play ignorant of what I'm talking about and forget about kde's commercial applications but your only hurting kde. Please enough BS about what you were going to write and all that. Its not to late to change course and get back on track. KDE will come out on top with the help of volunteers and the commercial members of the community. If we work together. Craig _______________________________________________ This message is from the kde-promo mailing list. Visit http://master.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-promo to unsubscribe, set digest on or temporarily stop your subscription.