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Desktop Environment for Proprietary Applications?
nushoin writes "Gnome and KDE are the two major desktop environments used on Linux today. However, Gnome is growing more and more affiliated with Microsoft's proprietary technologies (Mono, OOXML). Targeting the Gnome desktop environment could prove dangerous in the long run, assuming that one would like its applications to run on distributions other than SuSE. On the other hand, TrollTech is being bought by Nokia, whose commitment to the desktop world remains to be proven. Assuming that one would like to develop a desktop application (either free or closed source), which desktop environment would you target, and what widget tool kit would you use?"
But if you want to run proprietary applications on a desktop, Qt is a poor choice. For starters it costs money. Furthermore, Nokia can charge whatever they want for proprietary licenses, and this might change at any point; there are no guarantees.
This is quite trollish. Qt is no different in those respects from the other innumerable commercial libraries that are routinely used in proprietary software development. Singling out Qt as a "risk" suggests an axe to grind, and recommending GNOME for proprietary applications confirms it.
lets see, microsoft wants to kill Linux on the desktop (like a psychopath), Miguel De Izaca got very cozy with microsoft (sellout? yeah) and novell did too (another sellout), gnome is looking pretty fishy to me (smells like a fish too)...
unsure of Nokia's motive is for now so my enthusiasm for KDE is on hold with KDE-3.5.8 & QT-3.3.8 until who knows when...
who can you trust?
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