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Re: [Fwd: ANNOUNCE: Open Source license for Qt]



Eran Tromer wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> "Yannai A. Gonczarowski" wrote:
> > Will this bring us a little closer towards the end of the GNOME/KDE
> > war?
> 
> It might very well have the opposite effect. Until this announcement
> (and arguably /causing/ this announcement), GNOME seems to has enjoyed
> more public support despite lagging behind in functionality. I'm getting
> the impression that for that reason, had Qt remained non-free, GNOME
> would have taken over in the long run. As it is, the situation remains
> rather unclear: neither GNOME/GTK nor KDE/Qt will disappear without
> battle, and the usual recourse of building an abstraction layer seems
> rather absurd in this case, as both Qt and GTK /are/ already abstraction
> layes.
> 
>   Regards,
>     Eran Tromer

Well, since there are some (me included) who prefer that KDE will win in the
long run, I am happy that KDE gets a fair shot (well, as you can see from my
last posting about Debian changing their free software guidelines, maybe
it's not such a fair shot after all...).


Regards,
Yannai.

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