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