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On 2003.09.03 13:19:39 -0600, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> wrote:

> So, you're suggesting that FreeBSD users put up with
> incompatibilities, glitches, and an unethical licensing regime merely
> because they can get something that KINDA works today? This is very
> shortsighted. Why not just go with Windows? It has all of the same
> attributes.

You've said that KDE is only partially function under FreeBSD more than
once now.  Would you please elaborate on this?  I use FreeBSD+KDE as my
desktop and, short of a more complete Windows emulator, I haven't found
anything I could do in Windows or Linux that I can't do in FreeBSD+KDE.