-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On June 10, 2004 10:23, Michael Petch wrote: > Funny Aaron,
"Funny rabbit, tricks are for kids." > the price isn't justifiable to many developers (Not obviously > But many won't touch it because if it $1,500+ (USD) for Windows > Development. I think the money I spent was a good investment, but for > some its not a price tag that everyone pays. agreed. > Trolltech is a commercial product that just happens to have a GPL > compatible license. not quite; it's a commercial product that is released under the GPL (and QPLv2). it isn't GPL _compatible_, it is the GPL. the reason for the QPL license is to be workable with BSD / MIT / Artistic style licenses as well. > But if you are a Windows and MAC developer its far > from free. Its that simple. it's just as Free on the Mac as it is on UNIX, as Qt is released under the GPL for the Mac. > Just because QT is the basis of the project that you work on, it doesn't > mean it is the ideal solution for everyone else. of course not. and i didn't say that. please feel free to comment on factual errors i've made, but these sorts of statements are unproductive. > My comment was to point > out the commercial nature of a product you are pushing here. sorry if it seems like i'm "pushing" a "commercial product". =/ > If I thought GTK was the greatest thing since sliced bread why would I > buy QT? Because QT on some projects makes sense, but not on all. hrm. in my last email replace the word "you" with a more generic word like "someone" ... it wasn't pointed at you Mike, it was a series of general statements. it sounds like you took it personally. > I can think of one open source project that refuses to use QT because of > the windows and MAC platform developer licenses (www.gnubg.org) . And I > am sure that there are more. lots more. if you note in my previous email i specifically stated that for open source projects, the shortcomings of Gtk+ on Windows can be offset by the fact that it's LGPL'd on that platform. - -- Aaron J. Seigo GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 while (!horse()); cart(); -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAzc9J1rcusafx20MRAkJvAKCKRUtW7z+qCqDDwH+IqneEqeO5qQCePJT5 CHYC8Ly7gX2QyTsoar+pAbg= =jH7C -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
