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From: Arnt Gulbrandsen
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 00:00

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drf03@uow.edu.au (Daniel Robert Franklin)
> GNOME will be using as much KDE as possible. I would much rather use an 
> equivalently functional GNOME as opposed to KDE - I don't like having Qt 
> on my system when there are better libraries avaliable.

What better things are available?

> If Qt was under a 
> true free licence then things would be different. Why don't they place 
> old versions under GPL like Aladdin Ghostscript?

If we

 - wanted developers to still struggle with and work around the bugs
   we fixed last year
 - wanted more bug reports and support mail for those bugs
 - wanted potential customers to see old versions of Qt rather than
   the latest and greatest

then we would have done that.

--Arnt

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From: Arnt Gulbrandsen <agulbra@troll.no>
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