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Re: Gnome and Microsoft



 On Sat, 15 Dec 2007, Chris Giroir wrote: 

> I may have my facts very wrong, but I always thought the kissing up to 
> MS was mainly due to a couple of people hi up in Gnome's leadership. 
> If this is the case it doesn't bother me. I've never liked Qt's 
> history of originally not being open source, I shouldn't hold it 
> against it, but that combined with me not liking the interface lead me 
> to Gnome as my main desktop (When I'm not using FVWM that is). 
> 
> I'm also a very big GNU fan so I enjoy using Emacs and Gnome in my 
> support for more GNU oriented software as well. Honestly I say use 
> whichever you prefer for the interface, both are open and so far 
> haven't done anything official that bothers me yet. 


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