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Re: giving money to gnome



Benedikt Eric Heinen wrote:
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  >Just for a change, please, those people who don't see a problem with
  >giving money to the GNOME people, *please* state a couple of GOOD reasons
  >why we have to give it to GNOME, and why we can't hand it to GTK, dselect,
  >or other people not writing a free desktop. I won't think the KDE people
  >will mind us giving money from other sources to GNOME later. But in this
  >special case of JFL's KDE CD I see why KDE guys are upset.

It was rather tactless to announce that money from this CD would be given
to a competitor of KDE, but since it has been announced and the GNOME people
have been told, I think we are now committed to do it.

Learn from this for next time - I hope there will be a next time!
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Oliver Elphick                                Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk
Isle of Wight                              http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver

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