Henry Ficher wrote:
All this is very interesting, but I got stuck on the first word: What on
earth does IANAL stand for? I hope is not as lurid as it sounds. ;-)~
I Am Not A Lawyer.
Fortunately, it is a lawyer and not a translator. Imagine that somebody
asked what is "IANAT", and everybody
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From: Henry Ficher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 8:29 PM
Subject: Re: Consider banning KDE?
All this is very interesting, but I got stuck on the first word: What on
earth does IANAL stand for? I hope is not as lurid
On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 11:45:56PM +0300, Ira Abramov wrote:
Gnome are also a long way from a friendly GUI (I'm using the latest from
Helix), but it's not as restrictive. can't explain it in words, but
Gnome is more intuitive and flowing for me.
Yalla yalla.
Go tvtwm!
--
believing is
Recently I switched to FreeBSD and decided to give GNOME a try. Built
all gtk/gnome components from sources (using the excellent BSD ports
system) - latest stable versions.
Took me two days to realize GNOME is not nearly as stable as KDE1 is.
While mostly, it works, various components
This is a short range vs. long range conflict.
In the short range, KDE is more stable, has more nice software, etc.
But in the long range, what will happen to KDE and software based upon it?
THE reason for Stallman's GPL is to vest with users of software the power
to modify it and tailor it to
On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 01:40:56PM +0300, Ira Abramov wrote:
feel free to comment, but don't make this into a religious war between
KDE and other competitors, this is about license violations and
ideologies.
Not to argue on which's better today, KDE was the
best thing that happened to Linux
NM Took me two days to realize GNOME is not nearly as stable as KDE1 is.
NM While mostly, it works, various components (e.g., the help application)
NM crash repeatedly and sometimes restarting X seems like the only
NM option...
Seems you have bugs in your X installation. Never saw GNOME lock X,
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Matan Ziv-Av wrote:
and to the more politicly aware
linux users I explain my other ideological problems with their
cathedral practices and license problems.
I guess you also don't use bind (cathedral), sendmail (cathedral), qmail
(cathedral). Also, read lkml and
Ira wrote:
QT is NOT free software, and as such it does not settle with GPL of KDE
as it is distributed today.
According to RMS it is free (check www.gnu.org). The requirements are
that users are allowed to distribute the code, modify the code, and
distribute their modifications. All those
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
(scroll to fourth item)
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/06/13/1642213
You're more then welcome to take a look at the kde-devel archive at:
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-develr=1w=2 to see their response. I
remembered that I posted an email
Oops,
I mean that QT 2.0 is open-source, but its not free. You can use it for
open source project, but once u start selling, u need to pay to
Trolltech.
Sorry,
Hetz
Matan Ziv-Av wrote:
Ira wrote:
QT is NOT free software, and as such it does not settle with GPL of KDE
as it is
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Matan Ziv-Av wrote:
Ira wrote:
QT is NOT free software, and as such it does not settle with GPL of KDE
as it is distributed today.
According to RMS it is free (check www.gnu.org). The requirements are
that users are allowed to distribute the code, modify the
IANAL, and I would love to get into the guts of the licensing
problem. The fact that KDE/Qt is not GPLed does not bother me per se
(since I don't develop KDE-related stuff), but if they violate GPL
that's a big problem that might lead me to dropping KDE indeed.
However, the slashback article
Hi, Nimrod!
On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 04:08:25PM +0300, you wrote the following:
Recently I switched to FreeBSD and decided to give GNOME a try. Built
all gtk/gnome components from sources (using the excellent BSD ports
system) - latest stable versions.
Took me two days to realize GNOME is
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