Re: Hardware respecting your freedom

[Richard Stallman]

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  > Something like that. Qt was dual licensed (still is)

Not in 1998!  Qt was nonfree, pure and simple.
So I posted asking people to develop a free replacement.

  > Gnome was a reaction to KDE to build a desktop on a completely Free
  > toolkit, and was answer to KDE guys choosing Qt as a base for the
  > desktop.

I also posted asking people to develop another free desktop.
GNOME was the response.

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Dr Richard Stallman
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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