A few thoughts a emacs in a new era

Sat Oct 2 13:11:34 BST 1999

Hey, even Rich seems to have noticed us...;-)

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Subject: Re: A few thoughts a emacs in a new era
From: rms at gnu.org
Date: 1999/09/29
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
Neither Emacs nor XEmacs can support KDE, because linking them with Qt
would violate the GPL.  The license on Qt just barely qualifies as a
free software license, and it is incompatible with the GPL.

Aside from this, GNOME is the GNU Project's desktop.  We want to
encourage GNOME against its rival, KDE.  Support for Emacs should be
once advantage for GNOME.  Also, the GNOME equivalent of Kdevelop uses
Emacs to display the source code.  That should be another advantage
for GNOME.

Emacs is also on its way to being a word processor.

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