From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.tangents Subject: Re: Hardware respecting your freedom Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 23:40:47 -0400 Message-ID: References: <777a890b-cc3f-5338-4eea-129b66c29451@yandex.ru> <6ce4b6fa-d0ae-14dd-a5d1-f2b27080b3c3@yandex.ru> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="26152"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: ak@akirakyle.com, eliz@gnu.org, emacs-tangents@gnu.org, bugs@gnu.support, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Arthur Miller Original-X-From: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 23 08:01:09 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kVq8S-0006iK-Pg for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2020 08:01:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34738 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kVq8R-00067A-MU for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2020 02:01:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48174) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kVnwg-0006gx-Rf for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Oct 2020 23:40:51 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:57282) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kVnwf-0006Mv-2N; Thu, 22 Oct 2020 23:40:49 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kVnwd-0002mY-N4; Thu, 22 Oct 2020 23:40:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Arthur Miller on Thu, 22 Oct 2020 04:53:20 +0200) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 01:59:23 -0400 X-BeenThere: emacs-tangents@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-tangents" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.tangents:430 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > I think KDE was not really free at the time. > I used it around 2000, it was free. The issue with KDE, as of 1998, was that Qt was nonfree. At some point Qt was made free. I don't know whether that had happened by 2000. Maybe a few years after. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)