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QT 3.2 Released

Posted by timothy on from the cutie dept.

GlennZ writes "Today, Trolltech has released version 3.2 of QT. This release includes a completely rewritten, faster font-rendering engine and a lot more. Go download it today!"

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  1. Re:Mac version by Ranger+Rick · · Score: 5, Informative

    yes it is... it's on the FTP site (qt-mac-free-3.2.0.sit)

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  2. I don't understand... by TheSHAD0W · · Score: 4, Funny

    Isn't Quicktime 4 already out? And who's Trolltech? I thought Apple made Quicktime...

  3. Re:$1550 just to use it? No thanks. by computerme · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'll bite too.

    Why is there a free GPL version on their site for the Mac and Linux? The windows version was ceased cause too many (not naming names here) people refused to follow the rules of license.

    QT Rocks!*

    *Except for those that think "time != money" and "it !not take money to make money."

  4. Re:hogwash. by Kidbro · · Score: 4, Interesting

    when you have *free* alternatives ... utterly *free*, suddenly that $1500 is a whole lot of money.

    But you don't.
    Seriously, what alternatives to QT do you suggest? If you need something with a configurable look, looks sort of like native Windows apps on Windows, is supported on Linux, OS X, Windows and Solaris, and is fairly mature and stable.

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  5. Re:$1550 just to use it? No thanks. by Keith+Russell · · Score: 4, Informative
    $1550? That's nothing. Chump change.

    The problem is not that QT/Win is not free-as-in-beer. The problem is that QT/Win is not Free-as-in-speech.

    Trolltech released a Non-Commercial edition of QT/Win 2.3. The license basically said you couldn't make one thin dime off anything built with the Non-Comm edition, and since it was incompatible with the GPL, you had to add an exception to your license. Nobody took that license seriously, and Commercial license sales dropped. Trolltech was forced to end the line after that one release. (IMHO, had they gone GPL in the first place, they wouldn't have had that problem. The GPL gets respect.)

    Not that you could find that out from their FAQs. You have to go digging through the QT-Interest mailing list archives. All the FAQ has is flippant sayings like "When Windows is completely Open Source...". Bah. Like Microsoft really cares about Trolltech. Windows-based developers are the only ones getting screwed.

    In the end, Trolltech decided that "Windows compatible" and "Free/Open Source" are mutually exclusive. (Pay no attention to the cross-platform Open Source projects behind the curtain.)

    But I'm not bitter.

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