Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 08:34:43 -0400 From: "Francisco Reyes" <reyesf@newsguy.com> To: "Martin Cracauer" <cracauer@cons.org> Cc: "Advocacy List" <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD and KDE Message-ID: <199809081234.FAA01147@newsguy.com>
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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
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