From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Sep 7 02:18:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA14025 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Mon, 7 Sep 1998 02:18:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de (gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de [194.233.237.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA14020 for ; Mon, 7 Sep 1998 02:18:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cracauer@gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de) Received: (from cracauer@localhost) by gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de (8.8.8/8.7.3) id LAA07366; Mon, 7 Sep 1998 11:19:29 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19980907111928.A7347@cons.org> Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 11:19:28 +0200 From: Martin Cracauer To: Francisco Reyes , Advocacy List Subject: Re: FreeBSD and KDE References: <199809050332.UAA27249@newsguy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.1i In-Reply-To: <199809050332.UAA27249@newsguy.com>; from Francisco Reyes on Fri, Sep 04, 1998 at 11:32:25PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In <199809050332.UAA27249@newsguy.com>, Francisco Reyes wrote: > I think it may be a good idea to present KDE as a good starting > environment for new users. Anyone who is experience or is used to > other window managers can remain using whatever they want, but for a > new user the integration in KDE simplifies a lot of things. 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. Qt is not part of the operating system and therefore would have to be GPLed as well to run in the same binary as the GPL code. Actutally, this is a problem with the GPL, not with Troll's license. If FreeBSD concentrates on KDE, we may run into trouble if Walnut Creek drops it as well and/or Trolltech messes with their license. The default desktop for FreeBSD installations is a serious investment. No, I don't like Gtk that much. Long live Garnet. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer http://www.cons.org/cracauer BSD User Group Hamburg, Germany http://www.bsdhh.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message