At 11:07 AM 5/4/01 +1000, Martin Sevior wrote:
>On Thu, 3 May 2001, Paul Rohr wrote:
>> 3.  Clipboard.  It might be nice to interoperate with their PRIMARY RTF
and 
>> PNG copy/paste operations, but I don't know how feasible that'd be.  
>
>They don't export their clipboard text to the X-selection
>mechanism. Asking the author if he would be willing to support this would
>be a good way to start a dialog.

Drat.  I figured it'd be something like that.  Mutter, mutter, non-standard 
clipboards on X, mutter, mutter. 

>> >I love stealing GPL code :-)
>> 
>> I totally agree with this sentiment, but ... stealing?  Who said anything 
>> about stealing?  We prefer the word "sharing", no?  ;-)
>
>Yes it's sharing. It's kind of a running joke in GNOME community to
>talk of "stealing" someone's GPL'd code :-) It emphasizes the cool things
>one can do with GPL'd applications. Except if you're QT, Mozilla or Open
>Office which require dual licensing. They can't do tricks like this.

Whoops!  You caught me with my marketing hat on, on a day when MSFT is 
attacking the GPL even more than usual.  I've really gotta get out more. 

Paul

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