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From: Jacques Vidrine <nectar@NECTAR.COM>
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heh heh ... This thread came out of someone Alex making a comment that KDE
would be great for a graphical sysinstall:

On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Alex wrote:

> <plug>
> Speaking of an out of box experience, KDE works quite nicely.  It's kinda
> a CDE/Motif meets Win95 type thing, with a bunch of little applets for
> stuff from user managment to basic text editing to games.  I think this
> would make a nice "X" enviroment for a graphical sysinstall.  All of which
> might make using FreeBSD a less daunting desktop (or even server) OS.
> </plug>

So I wasn't actually saying KDE shouldn't use Qt, but that FreeBSD
installation utilities should not be based on any software with
licensing more restrictive than the Berkeley license.

Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com>

On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> What?  Eh?  I wasn't talking about doing anything of the sort in
> FreeBSD.  Sysinstall in Qt certainly isn't on *my* todo list and I
> doubt that it ever would be unless somebody suddenly decided that they
> wanted to pay me $100,000 to do it or something :-).
> 
> I was simply reacting to your implication (cited below) that KDE
> shouldn't use it.
> 
> 						Jordan