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Interview With Trolltech's CEO and CTO Eirik Eng
jlp2097 writes "There is a great and lengthy interview at the The Dot with Eirik Eng, CEO of Trolltech, and Matthias Ettrich, founder of the KDE project and CTO of Trolltech. They talk about the recent X(Free86) trouble, accessibility in QT, Trolltech's finances, Qtopia, the OS X Port and a GPL'd Windows QT - it's probably not going to happen. And, did you know that Qt is pronounced 'Cute' by its creators?"
Let the KDE/GNOME trolls commence!
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Someone's going to mention it, so ...
PF: Somebody mentioned that the Canopy Group & SCO owns some parts of Trolltech.
ME: Sorry, we don't have any influence on them.
PF: Do they have any influence on you?
ME: Not really. They have a 5.7% stake in Trolltech
This is completely believable -- Trolltech doesn't really fit into Canopy's current legal strategy, and there's unlikely that there's any "influence" going on there.
However, you can be sure that Canopy has access to Trolltech's customer lists -- If you have purchased Qt with the intent of doing (say) a large internal Linux deployment, don't be surprised when SCO comes knocking and asking for fees.
Unfortunately, QT will never gain widespread Linux desktop support unless TrollTech changes it's predatory licensing scheme. Whether you agree with the GPL or not, it remains an invetitbility. TrollTechs failure to capitulate will only marginalize QT (and KDE) even futher. The QT logo also resembles a hammer and sickle. This is fine for people from countries such as France/China/Cuba, but is frowned upon by American industry as they don't want to be associated with the failed ideology of communism.
The reason why companies such as Sun, RH, and Novell are adopting GNOME is because of QTs licensing, even though KDE is perhaps the more mature desktop.
Why, was he a homophobe?
Because only a homophobe would ever be embarassed for accidently calling someone cute when they didn't intend to.
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And you are revealing the truth that Trolltech wants to keep hidden, which explains why your insightful post has been marked down (currently) to "-1 Troll."
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If Sun had chosen KDE for their desktop, then that would be fine for all GPL-based application development. Like KDE, developers who GPL their applications can use the GPL'd version of Qt.
But if any proprietary application developers wanted their software to be compatible (i.e. use the same object model) as the KDE desktop, then those application developers would be forced to use the _proprietary_ version of Qt.
Thus, if they chose KDE, Sun would be making the same mistake that IBM made twenty years ago. Just as Microsoft's control of the OS gave them control over the PC platform, Trolltech would have control over all proprietary development for Sun's desktop platform.
I have nothing against KDE, however, it does promote Qt, and the use of proprietary Qt for Linux applications is a danger to Linux. The time may come when anyone who is using a Linux application based on proprietary Qt will be forced to run that application on Trolltech Linux, with who knows how many other proprietary hooks (or
Sun made the right decision. But it's not about KDE versus Gnome.
The fight is between GTK+ and Qt.
The use of GTK+ maintains the freedom of the Linux platform.
The use of Qt, for proprietary applications, results in a platform that is locked in to Trolltech.
stop referring to yourself in the third person. we all know you are a troll. it doesn't matter if what you say has valid points or not, you are only posting it to be a wanker.