Olivier Galibert writes:
> 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.
I second that.
-- Christian
