Subject: Re: Ted.
From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Thu May 03 2001 - 21:06:47 CDT
At 11:07 AM 5/4/01 +1000, Martin Sevior wrote:
>On Thu, 3 May 2001, Paul Rohr wrote:
>> 3. Clipboard. It might be nice to interoperate with their PRIMARY RTF
and
>> PNG copy/paste operations, but I don't know how feasible that'd be.
>
>They don't export their clipboard text to the X-selection
>mechanism. Asking the author if he would be willing to support this would
>be a good way to start a dialog.
Drat. I figured it'd be something like that. Mutter, mutter, non-standard
clipboards on X, mutter, mutter.
>> >I love stealing GPL code :-)
>>
>> I totally agree with this sentiment, but ... stealing? Who said anything
>> about stealing? We prefer the word "sharing", no? ;-)
>
>Yes it's sharing. It's kind of a running joke in GNOME community to
>talk of "stealing" someone's GPL'd code :-) It emphasizes the cool things
>one can do with GPL'd applications. Except if you're QT, Mozilla or Open
>Office which require dual licensing. They can't do tricks like this.
Whoops! You caught me with my marketing hat on, on a day when MSFT is
attacking the GPL even more than usual. I've really gotta get out more.
Paul
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