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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 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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      Eivind Throndsen, Trolltech AS