On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 09:10:13PM -0500, Carl Thompson wrote:
> 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?
You don't mean "commercial", here, you mean proprietary. _I_, for
one, won't go out of my way to help proprietary applications on Linux.
> Having a free
> competitor will keep them honest.
Will kill them.
> 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.
Linux have not been standing to mean "zero price" since version 0.13
onwards.
> With an
> LGPLed Harmony, all Linux development would be truly free.
If you want "true freeness" like some call it, go BSD. Free software
isn't about making a gratis development environment for proprietary
software developpers.
> 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...
Commercial Linux applications which are contributed back to the
community by being free won't have to pay.
> Please keep developing Harmony!
Not for the wrong reasons.
OG.
