Messages in this thread | | | From | (david parsons) | Subject | Re: OFFTOPIC: GTK and alternative GUIs and windowing systems in Linux | Date | 11 Feb 1998 15:54:06 -0800 |
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In article <linux.kernel.Pine.LNX.3.95.980211133032.9968B-100000@nightshade.z.ml.org>, linux kernel account <linker@nightshade.z.ml.org> wrote: >On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Aron Griffis wrote: > >> On 26 Jan 1998, Miguel de Icaza wrote: >> >> > The GNOME project (http://www.gnome.org) aims at providing a >> > completely freely redistributable desktop environment for Unix systems >> > (unlike KDE which is based on the non-free Qt libs). >> >> This is such a bogus argument. It's unfortunate that the sole driving >> reason for GNOME over KDE is faulty. Qt is free for developing free >> software. If you want to develop software for profit, you purchase the >> commercial license. Is that so hard? > >This kind of arrogance is typical of the KDE people! > >If KDE became the standard desktop enviroment under linux then commercial >vendors could either a) develop apps that dont integrate well b) pay a >(large) royality to TT..
US$1800 is not a large royalty to a commercial vendor.
If TT charged a large amount of money for Qt (by large, I mean US$20,000 or up) someone would have hired programmers to clone it by now.
____ david parsons \bi/ And who gives a fuck, anyway? \/
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