[Fwd: Corel : GNOME vs KDE]

1999-04-23 Thread John Foster
Sami Dalouche wrote: I don't understand why Corel has chosen KDE instead of Gnome. KDE is not free or not fully free. It's worse than Gnome : - it takes more memory - it's not GTK ( I'm a GTk fan) - I will have less apps because Gnome is newer and has, I think,

Re: [Fwd: Corel : GNOME vs KDE]

1999-04-23 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
First of all, don't post your message twice. On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 01:59:51 -0500, John Foster wrote: Wake up and smell the money! The KDE folks have the right to SELL or Liscense their desktop for commercial purposes if they want to. At the moment, KDE is GPLed. Of course they have the

Corel : GNOME vs KDE

1999-04-22 Thread Sami Dalouche
I don't understand why Corel has chosen KDE instead of Gnome. KDE is not free or not fully free. It's worse than Gnome : - it takes more memory - it's not GTK ( I'm a GTk fan) - I will have less apps because Gnome is newer and has, I think, already a lot of apps compared

Re: Corel : GNOME vs KDE

1999-04-22 Thread Jeff Noxon
Oh, no. Let's not start another GNOME-vs-KDE thread. Please! On Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 08:47:47PM +0200, Sami Dalouche wrote: I don't understand why Corel has chosen KDE instead of Gnome. [ Rest deleted ]

Re: Corel : GNOME vs KDE

1999-04-22 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Sami Dalouche wrote: I don't understand why Corel has chosen KDE instead of Gnome. KDE is not free or not fully free. It's worse than Gnome : - it takes more memory - it's not GTK ( I'm a GTk fan) - I will have less apps because Gnome is newer and has,

Re: Corel : GNOME vs KDE

1999-04-22 Thread thomas lakofski
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Philip Lehman wrote: How enlightening. KDE bashing is pretty trendy at the moment, isn't it? i think it'll be nice to have the choice of either. commercial adoption of debian as a base can only lead to good things, i think (judging by what corel's saying). Please, let's

Re: Corel : GNOME vs KDE

1999-04-22 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 4/22/99 3:27:48 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't understand why Corel has chosen KDE instead of Gnome. KDE is not free or not fully free. As stated in the release that came out a few days ago - it had to do with the fact that KDE has been around

Re: Corel : GNOME vs KDE

1999-04-22 Thread Paul Seelig
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Sami Dalouche wrote: I don't understand why Corel has chosen KDE instead of Gnome. [ etc. deleted ] Please stop right here! If you don't understand it then just keep quiet instead of provoking yet another flame war on this subject. Corel made a choice with regards to

Re: Corel : GNOME vs KDE

1999-04-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ snip ] : - I don't remember other reasons but GNOME is greater ! : : We could argue that... ;) Please do so somewhere other than debian-user. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]