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Trolltech Releases Qt 4.0

Posted by timothy on from the congratulations-all-around dept.

lypanov writes "Trolltech has released Qt 4.0 both under commercial and GPL licenses for X11, Mac OS X and MS Windows. It is the first time that a MS Windows GPL edition is available. To celebrate the release Trolltech employees have created a song and a music video (Bittorrent download, Ogg Theora version). Read the Qt 4 Overview and the online Qt Reference Documentation for more information. You can download Qt from ftp.trolltech.com or from one of its mirrors. Work on KDE 4 has already started with making a development branch of KDE compile and run with Qt 4."

2 of 413 comments (clear)

  1. MOD ARTICLE DOWN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Its a troll.
    Buh Duh Dum

  2. Re:How does QT survive. by Larthallor · · Score: 0, Troll
    3) The commercial license is very affordable.
    Nice troll, no pun intended.

    $50 for DarkBasic is "very affordable".
    $109 for Microsoft Visual C++ is "quite affordable".
    $3300 for QT 4.0 Desktop is not "very affordable".

    And that is just for one platform. If you want to use one of Qt's biggest strengths ("QT is very cross-platform.") you have to shell out $6600 to be able to compile for all three platforms.

    Depending on the economics of your business, it may be worth the money, but "very affordable" it ain't.