[PLUG] Re: Torvalds on KDE vs. Gnome

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

My guess is never -- have a look at the Qt and Mozilla and GPL licenses. 
Three of 'em ... all different ... not to mention trademarks and 
branding. It's enough to make a grown programmer cry and an IP attorney 
chortle in his joy. Whoever invented this "open source licensing" thing 
sure made life interesting for folks who want to give their stuff away. :)

Paul Johnson wrote:

>AthlonRob wrote:
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>>Aaron Burt wrote:
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>>>Waiting for the port of a KHTML-based browser to Gnome,
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>>I'm not a huge KHTML fan... it doesn't seem to render things quite right
>>too frequently for my tastes.
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>>Gecko does just fine... why don't we all just embrace Gecko and be done
>>with KHTML?  :-)
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>When will Mozilla get over itself and drop GTK in favor of QT so it actually
>looks good and runs at a decent speed for those of us who don't use Gnome?
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M. Edward (Ed) Borasky

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