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: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 23:49:51 -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="13046"; 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 Sat Oct 24 07:57:49 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 1kWCYn-0003Ho-PB for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 24 Oct 2020 07:57:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41972 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kWCYm-0007yP-Mb for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 24 Oct 2020 01:57:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60580) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kWAZ0-0005Gd-2N for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2020 23:49:54 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:40946) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kWAYy-0006lt-ON; Fri, 23 Oct 2020 23:49:52 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kWAYx-0003Zh-Kf; Fri, 23 Oct 2020 23:49:51 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Arthur Miller on Fri, 23 Oct 2020 14:53:26 +0200) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 24 Oct 2020 01:57:26 -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:435 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. ]]] > 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. -- 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)