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Qt/Mac Application Developer Contest
whitefael writes "Trolltech is sponsoring a contest in order to increase the number of Qt/Mac applications available and to award the best commercially developed and free Qt-based applications on the Mac. The prize? A screaming Power Mac G5! The top ten will be announced at Apple's World Wide Developer (WWDC) Conference 2004, June 28-July 2. The top two from each category will also receive iPods. Anyone out there interested? You have until May 7, 2004 to enter."
Except that GPL Qt is available for the Mac. So, it is functionally no different than programming something in pure Qt for Linux, at least with regards to promoting their 'commercial' and 'proprietary' product.
Yes, you are quite right: it is very similar.
Unless you are also against all Qt programming in Linux? Or are you fully against free software on the Mac?
I don't know what you mean by "being against it". I think Troll Tech had a mediocre toolkit that only succeeded because of their licensing gimmicks and they have taken unfair advantage of gullible open source developers in order to succeed. When you develop a good application for Qt or Macintosh, you are giving those two companies a huge, free gift. Why would you want to do that when you could instead create software on/for open source platforms that you yourself have full control over?
So, I think it's stupid for you to develop open source software in Qt or for Macintosh. But you have a right to be stupid, so in that sense, I'm not "against it", I'm just pointing out your stupidity.
Ah, the Macintosh and Qt zealots never fail to disappoint: criticize their obsession and they mod you down.