Trolltech Discontinue Non-Commercial Qt

An anonymous reader submits "Trolltech has quietly discontinued their non-commercial version of Qt for Windows. This eliminates Qt as a choice for those wanting to develop free multi-platform software." Actually, according to the linked page, "if you write Free software (Open Source software covered by the GPL) you are welcome to download and use the Free Edition of Qt," and Trolltech points out that one can buy the current edition of Qt -- seems fair enough.

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Corrections to Timothy's $0.02

[Keith Russell]

Actually, according to the linked page, "if you write Free software (Open Source software covered by the GPL) you are welcome to download and use the Free Edition of Qt,"...

Actually, if you read what the submitter wrote, he said "free multi-platform" software. OK, I'll grant that X/11 and Mac are "multi-platform", but when those platforms make up ~7% of the market, it's nothing to brag about. Trolltech continues to aggresively deny Qt developers the ability to distribute their works to the vast majority of the computing product. After all, cross-platform Open Source software can't possibly succeed, can it?

...and Trolltech points out that one can buy the current edition of Qt -- seems fair enough.

MSRP of Microsoft Visual C++ .NET Standard Edition: US$109. MSRP of Qt/Windows Professional Edition: US$1550. <sarcasm>Oh, yeah. That's fair.</sarcasm> It's really discriminatory and punitive. And it's still not Open Source. What makes them think that taking the low road like that will convince Windows devlopers to consider Qt?

Re:Perhaps they are waiting for the Bill?

[leonbrooks]

It can't be freed.

True, but it can be Freed, which is what I wrote.

Re:Perhaps they are waiting for the Bill?

[leonbrooks]

Please stop making up words and pretending that they have generally accepted meanings.

Phrrk, phrrk, is this thing on?

It would have been much simpler and politer to say (onymously) "I don't like the GPL" rather than going through the whole petulant deliberate-ignorance act. On a non-technical blog you might have some hope of coming across as justifiably confused and indignant but here you're just lame and it shows.

Have fun grinding your axe on your own time.