From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: ak@akirakyle.com, eliz@gnu.org, emacs-tangents@gnu.org,
bugs@gnu.support, dgutov@yandex.ru
Subject: Re: Hardware respecting your freedom
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2020 17:00:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <VI1PR06MB4526A3D8D73331DF10E13AAB961B0@VI1PR06MB4526.eurprd06.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1kWAYx-0003Zh-Kf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri, 23 Oct 2020 23:49:51 -0400")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> [[[ 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. ]]]
>
> > Something like that. Qt was dual licensed (still is)
>
> Not in 1998! Qt was nonfree, pure and simple.
> So I posted asking people to develop a free replacement.
>
> > Gnome was a reaction to KDE to build a desktop on a completely Free
> > toolkit, and was answer to KDE guys choosing Qt as a base for the
> > desktop.
>
> I also posted asking people to develop another free desktop.
> GNOME was the response.
That eventually also led to Motif becoming "Open" too, probably in
combination with LessTif being good enough implementation of Motif;
albeit it was too late for Motif to be relevant.
If you don't mind me asking; I am just curious, was LessTif not an
alternative because of LGPL license, or some other reason?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-24 15:00 UTC|newest]
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2020-10-20 20:11 ` Rethinking the design of xwidgets Jean Louis
2020-10-20 23:25 ` Sv: " arthur miller
2020-10-21 8:10 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-21 11:59 ` Arthur Miller
2020-10-21 12:58 ` Hardware respecting your freedom Jean Louis
2020-10-22 2:53 ` Arthur Miller
2020-10-22 7:08 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-23 3:40 ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-23 12:53 ` Arthur Miller
2020-10-23 15:15 ` Pankaj Jangid
2020-10-24 3:49 ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-24 6:02 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-24 15:00 ` Arthur Miller [this message]
2020-10-25 3:54 ` Richard Stallman
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2020-10-21 12:25 ` Rethinking the design of xwidgets Arthur Miller
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