Re: KDE gone, Lyx next ?
On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 09:52:21AM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
> There are those possibilities, but the lyx people will probably give
> permission for linking with libforms since they clearly intend for that to
> be done. The biggest problem with KDE was outside code that was ported and
> that the KDE people did not want to make the needed changes. Has anyone yet
> contacted the lyx people?
Yes, me.
> > IMO we should try to keep lyx. Or do we have an alternative to offer? With
> > kde we could say try gnome which IMO is much better anyway.
>
> This is not, I repeat -NOT- about whether or not we can replace KDE with
> Gnome or we can replace lyx with anything else. We should try to convince
> the lyx people to make the changes we need to allow us to keep lyx, just as
> we tried with KDE.
Please read my statement. I never said this is about replacements. I just
said we should try to keep it because it is important IMO. Not that we
didn't try with KDE though.
> I agreed that KDE needed to be removed because of the license problems, NOT
> because it was non-free code or anything so petty.
No one said that.
Michael
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