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Review Of LinuxWorld 2004

Posted by timothy on from the Y2***-is-the-year-of-desktop-linux dept.

jamienk writes "I went to the LinuxWorld convention at the Javits Center in NYC again this year. This is where the post-post-industrial corporate complex flexes for us consumers and infrastructure staff to see. And the smell of Corps was thick in the air. So was the nerdy, curious, driven, hacker odor. Guess which vibe won?"

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  1. Worrying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The new GTKQTlib thing (where you can make GNOME applications use KDE dialog boxes, and save/print/open controls) can now be set to automatically make GNOME apps use KDE dialogs with no extra GNOME code. This should make it easy for distros to make GNOME apps integrate with KDE.

    This is worrying. Qt is a full-on GPL viral product. How does automatically linking it with the more liberal GNOME licensing work. TrollTech and KDE are up shit creek with licensing... GNOME allows you to use whatever license you like for apps, unlike Qt/KDE which requires a very expensive Qt license for that priveledg. Consequently TrollTech is getting slaughtered in the desktop market. This bit of underhandedness seems to be an attempt to muddy the license waters, and confuse the issue.

    1. Re:Worrying by metlin · · Score: 1, Flamebait

      Stop trolling. What the hell has licensing got to do with this?

      This is more for the sake for portability and compatibility issues, thats all. Its a way for the user of one tool to be able to use another tool without having to really work hard at porting - the exact problem which users face when moving even between various platforms in MS (WinNT vs. Win98, etc).

      If I use app Foo on Gnome, I can use KFoo on KDE without too much trouble (K added for attitude ;). If anything, this is great.