Hello,
I am not a Harmony developer, but I have been following its development
with interest.
Jo Dillon wrote:
> ...
> Well, this is true, but any commercial company can afford Qt's charges.
> I really don't think the Qt fees will deter companies from developing
> for Linux. I personally have always seen this side of things as a rather
> minor problem, and for that matter RMS said in discussions earlier
> that a GPL'd Harmony would be perfectly acceptable, even though that
> wouldn't allow commercial Harmony development at all.
If TT's announcemment succeeds in killing of the Harmony and GNOME projects,
whose to say that they won't dramatically raise the price of licensing QT
for commercial applications after Linux becomes mainstream? Having a free
competitor will keep them honest. If KDE becomes the desktop standard for
Linux then commercial applications will probably need to be written as KDE
applications. I think it goes against what Linux stands for if a developer
is required to pay TT in order to develop commercially for Linux. With an
LGPLed Harmony, all Linux development would be truly free.
Just remember that if KDE becomes the standard Linux desktop, without
Harmony we are giving TT a monopoly on a required library for commercial
Linux development. It would really suck if we allowed one company to
dictate the future of all future commercial Linux applications...
Please keep developing Harmony!
Thank you,
Carl Thompson
