On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Akintayo Holder wrote:
>Michael Stearne wrote:
>>
>> Which is better, KDE or gnome?
>
>KDE is older (started first) and is further along than GNOME which has
>yet to reach version 1 (0.99.8). GNOME was created because KDE is based
>on the Qt library which is non-free, thus GNOME is a free (from ground
>up) replacement of KDE.
>
A pernicious myth! (about Qt and thus KDE not being free, that is)
Go to Qt's home page at www.troll.no. Also check out KDE's
argument at www.kde.org. Does a library have to follow the LGPL
letter-for-letter in order for it to be free? The current version
(1.42) allows me to develop freely for free software. The next version
(2.0) will have an extremely liberal license.
The fact that I can't (currently) use this library to freely create
non-free commercial software is immaterial to me. Every line of code in
the KDE project is GPL'd.
The statement that GNOME is meant to be a replacement for KDE is wrong.
Just read the GNOME FAQ.
--
Arandir...
