[Fsf-friends] KDE vs GNOME war

[Sandip Bhattacharya]

On Monday, 10 Oct 2005 9:41 am, Harish Narayanan wrote:
> A deeper implication of this is that the KDE developers didn't value
> their freedom and decided to base their choice of toolkit purely on
> convenience. QT has since then slowly been made more free on different
> platforms, but is still non-free on some platforms. But some people, and
> I know at least one, who do not forget or forgive these things so
> easily. RedHat has also invested a lot in GNOME development over all
> these years and spent much time tuning their software to work well with it.

I find this quite amusing, you keep harping on freedom, and free software, but 
conveniently dont mention the fact that a significant effort of Gnome is 
being spent on development using Mono, which is based on a non-free language!

You even mentioned "beagle" (written in C#) in a reply on this thread!

And please, it irritates me no end when people misuse the purely english word 
"free". If you mean the GNU definition of Freedom, please at least spell 
"free" with a capital F (e.g. Free), so that people can distinguish it from 
the common english meaning of the term  - "free" (meaning something which is 
available without *any* strings, regardless of whether these strings are for 
public good). Otherwise, the GNU litreature will continue to seem puzzling to 
many lay people. We already have a very difficult time explaining this to 
newcomers at LUG meets (and no, talking about Free Beer doesnt work very well 
in schools and colleges ;) )

- Sandip

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