Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 11:48:33 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Fredrik Olausson <fredrik@speechcraft.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The desktop apathy Message-ID: <20010528114833.G43555@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010528020324.0487b570@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Mon, May 28, 2001 at 02:06:04AM -0600 References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010527082742.049003f0@localhost> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105252316300.294-100000@molly.telia.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20010527082742.049003f0@localhost> <20010527172838.A11174@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010528020324.0487b570@localhost>
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Brett Glass said on May 28, 2001 at 02:06:04: > At 09:28 AM 5/27/2001, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > >Why don't you start your own BSD-licensed desktop project? > > Because for desktops -- and I know this is a controversial > statement -- it seems that commercial is a better model > than open source. Well, I myself said that I doubted the BSD license would be suitable. On the GPL side, I wouldn't give up on the KDE/Gnome people. As for commercial, Qt is available to them and not very expensive, so commercial companies can certainly use it (eg Opera), and Gtk/Gnomelibs are under LGPL and usable with commercial software. And Motif still exists, of course. Your GPL bogey is really not relevant here. > >I'd say most users of BSD whom I know use linux as a GUI -- that is, > >their window manager / desktop environment was developed on linux, > >though it may be ported to run natively on FreeBSD. The "BSD > >community" as such has made no contribution to the desktop, > > FVWM is essentially BSD-licensed. It's not exactly tearing up > the charts. Which was my point. However, it does have a non-negligible user base still. I didn't know about its license. R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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