Re: Linus Speaks About KDE-Bashing

Ragnar Hojland Espinosa (root@lightside.ddns.org)
Sun, 12 Jul 1998 05:27:26 +0200 (MET DST)


On Sat, 11 Jul 1998 linker@nightshade.ml.org wrote:

> I've argued about this on slashdot, and *ALOT* of people think it would be
> just fine for the kde people to make kgimp! Which is untrue unless the
> Gimp authors (all of them) agree it's okay to link their app to a
> propritary lib.

This is certainly scary.. and even more if there's so many people out
there thinking in that way. It even makes actual GPL almost useless: "GPL?
Bah, we have the source, we can do whatever we want". Whats next, kkernels?

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