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
