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QT/Win 3.3.3 To 'Reach Production State Soon'

Posted by timothy on from the so-will-windows dept.

sebFlyte writes "The KDE Cygwin team are reportedly closing in on a native port for QT to allow said graphical framework to run over Windows. This has upset a few people, who think that porting open source apps to Windows is strengthening MS's near monopoly and damaging Linux." (Of course, KDE also runs on OSes besides Linux.)

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  1. Maybe I Don't Understand... by FlipmodePlaya · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm guessing a native port of KDE was impossible because Qt for Windows is not released under the GPL. Now, however, Trolltech will be releasing it under the GPL. Does this mean all the work of porting it was needless? Furthermore, does this mean we'll see an influx of Qt apps being ported to Windows now that they're free to use Qt on that platform?

    1. Re:Maybe I Don't Understand... by Spy+Hunter · · Score: 3, Informative

      TrollTech is releasing QT/Win 4 under the GPL. Their version of QT/Win 3 will not be released under the GPL, so this work is not completely redundant. Furthermore, I am almost positive that this project is what prompted TrollTech to GPL QT/Win 4. They have stated many times before that they would not, but when faced with the possibility of having QT/Linux 4 ported to Windows out of their control, they very wisely chose to GPL their own version instead to keep the QT developer community from fragmenting.

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    2. Re:Maybe I Don't Understand... by eivindthrondsen · · Score: 5, Informative

      No. We were aware of the project but it did not play a major role in the decision process leading up to the decision to dual license Qt 4.

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  2. Have we forgotten? by HexaByte · · Score: 3, Informative

    Have we forgotten what the LAST component was that made open source Unix (GNU/Linux) possible?

    It was the KERNEL!

    Getting people to run GNU apps on "real" Unix came first. Perhaps we can get people to run good apps and a good desktop on Windoze, then bring them over to Linux.

    And even if we don't we open up a whole new area for the superior, Open Source apps!

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