Star When OSS-based Corporations and (some) OSS Hackers Clash
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 13th Mar 2003 17:43 UTC
Editorial A KDE developer tipped me off to a recent thread discussed in the kde-core-devel mailing list regarding interoperability between KDE and Gnome. OSNews featured an interview with the usability experts from Gnome and KDE a few days ago and we expected that the spirit of co-operation would continue to get stronger every day. Luckily this is true regarding most of these developers, but not for all of them are sharing it. Here is a commentary on the issue followed by a summary of the long thread.
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Re: License is the root problem
by Jon Smirl on Thu 13th Mar 2003 19:59 UTC

Another way to look at it: If Redhat bought Trolltech, LGPL'd QT, and stopped funding gnome - how long would it be before gnome collaped?