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Interview: Aaron Seigo, KDE Project Lead (Sirius)
Interview: Aaron Seigo, KDE Project Lead (Sirius)
Posted Mar 29, 2008 9:10 UTC (Sat) by Janne (guest, #40891)In reply to: Interview: Aaron Seigo, KDE Project Lead (Sirius) by ajross
Parent article: Interview: Aaron Seigo, KDE Project Lead (Sirius)
The "controversy" surrounding KDE and Qt never ceases to amaze me. First the complaints were
that "KDE uses toolkit that is not free software!". So the complaint was about supporting and
using free software. Now that Qt is licensed under the GPL, the complaint changed in to "KDE
makes it harder to write proprietary software!". It never ceases to amaze me how the complainers
could make a total 180 degree turn in their argument. First it was because KDE was not really free
software. Then it was because KDE does not bend over backwards for writers of proprietary
software.
I thought that this was about free software? Why exactly should we care about those who want
to push proprietary software on us?
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Interview: Aaron Seigo, KDE Project Lead (Sirius)
Posted Mar 29, 2008 12:31 UTC (Sat) by midg3t (subscriber, #30998) [Link]
The complainers didn't make a 180 degree turn. The people complaining about non-free compatibility is a different set from those who complained about free-compatibility.
At least in theory.
Interview: Aaron Seigo, KDE Project Lead (Sirius)
Posted Apr 7, 2008 13:28 UTC (Mon) by liljencrantz (subscriber, #28458) [Link]
I think so too. I know I was one of the people who complained about the non-free:ness of QT back in the day to the extent that I avoided KDE. But though I may wish that our platform API:s where all licensed under LGPL, having QT under the GPL is not at all a problem for me. I'm sure some of the people are still the same people who have simply decided to dislike KDE (or get payed to dislike KDE), but I belive they are in a minority.