Messages in this thread | | | From | (Miquel van Smoorenburg) | Subject | Re: Sco vs. IBM | Date | Thu, 19 Jun 2003 16:34:05 +0000 (UTC) |
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In article <20030619141443.GR29247@fs.tum.de>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> wrote: >There's no license reason today why there are two big desktop projects >(GNOME and KDE).
There is. If you want to develop a commercial application under KDE you need to pay TrollTech for the Qt license. Basically TrollTech controls all commercial KDE applications.
Which makes no sense. You're not at the mercy of Linus or the kernel developers, neither at that of the KDE developers, but TrollTech controls the KDE desktop wrt commercial apps.
What if TrollTech decides to only license (or sell) Qt to, say, Microsoft? What does that mean for, say, the Kompany ?
Mike.
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