From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Feb 2 10:53:46 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA17842 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 10:53:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA17837 for ; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 10:53:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA20810; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 11:53:35 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd020785; Tue Feb 2 11:53:32 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA06637; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 11:53:25 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199902021853.LAA06637@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Lets Endorse KDE Was: some slashdot thread To: allenc@verinet.com (Allen Campbell) Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 18:53:25 +0000 (GMT) Cc: brett@lariat.org, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <36B6941F.5E340E44@verinet.com> from "Allen Campbell" at Feb 1, 99 10:58:55 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > And, again, a good way to try to get a good desktop BSD licensed. I'd really > > like to see something slick that's not GPLed.... Maybe they'd > > be willing. > > At this point I can't imagine there is a huge amount loyalty to GNU > amongst the KDE powers-that-be. They have been treated very poorly by > GNU due to the original QT license. Despite the remarkable changes that > have taken place with QT as a direct result of KDE, GNU has little > regard any of it. The ORB is GPL'ed. You aren't going to get the ORB out as BSD licensed code. The desktop, well, there you might have a chance. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message