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envelope-from=arthur.miller@live.com; helo=EUR05-VI1-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/10/24 11:00:55 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Windows NT kernel [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2=-0.001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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:437 Archived-At: Richard Stallman 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?