On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 06:02:19AM +0800, csj wrote: > On Friday 06 July 2001 02:30, Lambrecht Joris wrote: > > While digging thru a google queryresult on Mailclients i stumbled > > across this archived mail . . . the birth of KDE ? It's pretty old > > Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 15:19:00 +0100 (MET) > > > > http://www.via.ecp.fr/lyx/archive/9610/msg00368.html > > > > Anyway, thought it was kinda cool. > > > > Forgive me, i'm getting much to sentimental right now. > > Hmm, assuming the authenticity of the mail: it just confirms my > theories about the origin of the KDE/Gnome schism. The mail, a post
Why wouldn't it be, can't imagine someone forging some mail an stuff it into some OLD archive. > to the lyx list, was from Matthias Ettrich, from an email address > that's as German (and hence European) as you could get > (informatik.uni-tuebingen.de). The poster didn't dwell on the > "free-ness" of qt. He just wanted to create a really "Kool" desktop > environment. Which is understandable from a non-American perspective. > The initial Gnome reaction is also understandable. Cosmopolitan > America is an inherently litigious village, and so using the qt Sad, but all America has is a Cosmopolitan Genepool. Then again, i'm nowhere near America. > library might have been more than a simple matter of scruples. Better > safe than sued. > QT was allready somewhat famous on it's own, was used by some rather popular software hence the choice probably. > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >