Re: Hardware respecting your freedom

[Arthur Miller]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>
>   > 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.
That eventually also led to Motif becoming "Open" too, probably in
combination with LessTif being good enough implementation of Motif;
albeit it was too late for Motif to be relevant.

If you don't mind me asking; I am just curious, was LessTif not an
alternative because of LGPL license, or some other reason?