From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Sep 8 05:35:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA21776 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 05:35:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from newsguy.com (perry.co.pathlink.com [207.211.168.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA21763 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 05:35:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reyesf@newsguy.com) Received: (from reyesf@localhost) by newsguy.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA01147; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 05:34:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199809081234.FAA01147@newsguy.com> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "Martin Cracauer" Cc: "Advocacy List" Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 08:34:43 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows 95 (4.0.1111) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: FreeBSD and KDE Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 8 Sep 1998 01:19:36 -0700 (PDT), Alex wrote: >> Well, the questionable license is still the weak point. Redhat doesn't >> include qt/KDE with their Linux distribution anymore, because they >> think using GPL code (KDE code is GPL) on top of qt violates the GPL. Trying to get back to the topic of the list... :-) Today (and for the short foreseable future) QT is free as long as the source is distributed. For users just learning Unix, they don't care about licenses. I would think they care about price and quality. KDE is a 1.0 release, but it is usable. Many new users dont' understand X is just a program and KDE is just another program. They see the whole thing as a package and that is what they judge. We could present KDE as something to try for new users. A starting point. I think may help FreeBSD in that it would improve the experience new users would have with the OS. The only drawback I see is that we would need to explain users that KDE is independent of FreeBSD so if and when they have problems with it, they don't think it is a FreeBSD problem. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message