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From: Jesse Pollard <jesse@cats-chateau.net>
To: Martin List-Petersen <martin@list-petersen.dk>,
       Magnus Solvang <magnus@solvang.net>
Subject: Re: Sco vs. IBM
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 08:14:55 -0500
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On Thursday 19 June 2003 08:03, Martin List-Petersen wrote:
> Citat Magnus Solvang <magnus@solvang.net>:
> > Quoting jdow (jdow@earthlink.net):
> > [...]
> >
> > | > I believe it's this Norwegian company they write about:
> > | >
> > | > http://www.trolltech.com/
> > |
> > | If so then say good by to KDE sometime soon....
> >
> > How did you arrive at that conclusion? Do you believe that
> > SCO will destroy everything and everybody related to Linux
> > when they can make money by suing them? :)
> > And KDE is not limited to just Linux.
>
> Go back and read the forbes article. That was more or less exactly the
> point of that article.

It was the original reason Gnome was started. Trolltec had released thier
toolkit for "free" but not GPL. They then changed the licence a bit, but I
think they still have some (lot?) control over the toolkit. I believe the
KDE group did start a re-work to implement an independant version, but I
don't know how that went.
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