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Re: KDE Announces Launch of the KDE League
by Anonymous on Wednesday 15/Nov/2000, @14:49

Poor you, they didn't want to back your project.
No wondering you're bitter...

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Re: KDE Announces Launch of the KDE League
by Matthias Ettrich on Wednesday 15/Nov/2000, @16:10

There's a huge difference between not backing up a free software effort and actively working against a free software effort. I'm not talking about supporting a competitive effort, I'm talking about approaching commercial or free software developers and feeding them with missinformation. They failed in many cases, though, where the engineers won the battle and decided to go with the technically more appealing solution. Corel is a prime example for this.

I'm not bitter at all. If Red Hat said clearly "we don't see how we can make money with Qt, but we see a great business opportunity to push and lead Gtk development", all would have been fine. Open cards, you know. I wish they wouldn't have advertised their powertools product with a huge screenshot of my LyX software at this time - it had exactly the same "licensing problems" in their point of view.

Seriously, I'm much more dissappointed that they hired some excellent developers from the KDE team and don't give those enough time to work on their respective KDE projects.

Btw: Next time you post and insult, put your name in there.

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