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Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] Speaking of the KDE league...
From:       blackfarm <blackfarm () mountain ! net>
Date:       2001-06-09 3:39:49
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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
 
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