On 12/12/2009 16:59, retard wrote:
A colleague's company was previously using the expensive commercial Qt.
Now they use the lgpl licensed one and are still making money. They also
use gpl/lgpl licensed components for web 2.0 GUIs. In cloud environments
you only need to reveal your closed sources if you're using AGPL. Feels
weird that someone can't accept lgpl for commercial use.
We/I have no pb with lpgl'ed software. But :
Fact 1 :none of the open source GUI solutions are good enough. (for what
we need) - especially the grid controls/widgets are completely
insufficient. Not to talk abpout Gui support for multilingual/national apps.
Fact 2 : ~95 percent of our customers are using MS products. (OS and
infrastructure) so platform independence is a minor issue.
Fact 3: Since (we think) our products are mission critical we need 24/7
long term support. -not always given in open source projects.
Björn
