Re: Birth of KDE
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 06:02:19AM +0800, csj wrote:
> On Friday 06 July 2001 02:30, Lambrecht Joris wrote:
> > While digging thru a google queryresult on Mailclients i stumbled
> > across this archived mail . . . the birth of KDE ? It's pretty old
> > Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 15:19:00 +0100 (MET)
> >
> > http://www.via.ecp.fr/lyx/archive/9610/msg00368.html
> >
> > Anyway, thought it was kinda cool.
> >
> > Forgive me, i'm getting much to sentimental right now.
>
> Hmm, assuming the authenticity of the mail: it just confirms my
> theories about the origin of the KDE/Gnome schism. The mail, a post
Why wouldn't it be, can't imagine someone forging some mail an stuff it into some OLD archive.
> to the lyx list, was from Matthias Ettrich, from an email address
> that's as German (and hence European) as you could get
> (informatik.uni-tuebingen.de). The poster didn't dwell on the
> "free-ness" of qt. He just wanted to create a really "Kool" desktop
> environment. Which is understandable from a non-American perspective.
> The initial Gnome reaction is also understandable. Cosmopolitan
> America is an inherently litigious village, and so using the qt
Sad, but all America has is a Cosmopolitan Genepool. Then again, i'm nowhere near America.
> library might have been more than a simple matter of scruples. Better
> safe than sued.
>
QT was allready somewhat famous on it's own, was used by some rather popular software hence the choice probably.
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