Re: giving money to gnome
Paul,
You are missing an important point.
Gtk development is fairly near finished. We already have a lot of
high-quality free widget toolkits, including gtk. We need a desktop more.
Paul J Thompson <thomppj@thomppj.student.okstate.edu> writes:
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> Debian Developers,
>
> > 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.
> >
> > Benedikt
>
> Benedikt has a very valid point. I vote that we consider giving the money to
> GTK instead. This has the following advantages:
>
> 1. Giving it to GTK isn't quite as "in your face" to KDE as giving it to
> Gnome.
> 2. Supporting GTK is supporting Gnome.
> 3. GTK is an excellent candidate for a good, free X Toolkit for Linux
> (Debian!).
> 4. The better GTK gets, the better the Gimp gets (and Everybody Loves the
> Gimp!)
>
> I am slightly kidding about the fourth reason. But the first 3 are reason
> enough to support GTK. And, this doesn't mean we couldn't still earmark some
> money for Gnome (especially since we already told them we'd give them some
> money), just channel the money donated specifically from this KDE thing to GTK
> ( KDE $$$ ---> GTK ).
>
> Just my opinion.
>
> ALL RESPONDERS: Please try to keep replies to this more aimed at dicussing
> the concept of maybe donating to GTK. I feel we have ground this KDE/Gnome
> money thing far into the ground. Also, try to keep them short, concise, and
> to the point. Let's keep it constructive! :-]
>
> - Paul J Thompson
>
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