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Peace in our time?

Thursday, 7 September 2000  |  Numanee
Dennis E. Powell at LinuxPlanet has a new article out. This time he writes about the recent events in KDE history, and also includes a bit about the guys from Helix Code. It's all good. Read More

And in the news today...

Wednesday, 6 September 2000  |  Numanee
Evan Leibovitch @ZDNet writes an entertaining piece summing up the recent KDE/GNOME events in "It's the apps, stupid". Stephen Shankland @CNET writes about the Qt GPL announcement in "Barrier lowered between Linux interfaces". Rick Lehrbaum @ZDNet reports on the same in "Good news for KDE". Last, but certainly not least, the KDE 2.0 release schedule has been announced. Read More

Interview with Kurt Granroth

Tuesday, 5 September 2000  |  Numanee
ITworld.com is currently running an interesting web interview by Joe Barr with core KDE developer, Kurt Granroth. Kurt talks about KDE2 vs KDE1, KOffice 1.0, KMail, and much more. Read More

Qt, now also GPL!

Tuesday, 5 September 2000  |  Numanee
Trolltech has announced that Qt 2.2 will be released under the GPL! Read what LinuxPlanet/LinuxToday has to say about this here, ZDNet also reports, and an editorial by Matthias Ettrich and Eirik Eng here. Read More

RMS on Qt

Tuesday, 5 September 2000  |  Raphinou

The opinion of RMS on the GPLing of Qt can be found on linuxtoday. For some readers comments, you can also go to slashdot.

Update: 09/06 12:15 AM by N: KDE officially responded, including a link to the code license audit in the response.

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VisKProg 0.1.9 announced

Monday, 4 September 2000  |  Numanee
A new release of VisKProg, a visual programming language for KDE, was recently announced. Here are some sample screenshots. Seems pretty interesting, hope they port it to KDE 2.0 soon! Read More

KDE Project issues statement on GNOME Foundation

Sunday, 3 September 2000  |  Numanee
The KDE Core Team took a break from coding and wrote up an official response to the whole GNOME foundation thing. It wouldn't have been necessary if not for the endless questions and misinformation about the project ever since the original announcement. Read More

New Visio style application

Saturday, 2 September 2000  |  Numanee
theKompany.com recently announced the Kivio project, an attempt to build a Visio clone. Kivio will be based on KDE2 technology such as KParts and so it will be fully interoperable with KOffice. Read More