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Qt Becomes LGPL
Aequo writes "Qt, the highly polished, well documented, modern GUI toolkit owned by Nokia, will be available under the LGPL starting with version 4.5! It was previously only mainly available under the GPL and a commercial license. Selling licenses was an important part of Qt under Trolltech as it was the company's main source of income, but Trolltech is a fruit-fly compared to Nokia, who want to encourage and stimulate the use of Qt Everywhere [PDF]. This is fantastic news for all commercial developers looking to create cross-platform applications without the need to buy a $4950 multi-platform license per developer."
More like Lesser communism amiright?
Merge the teams, move forward with KDE and lets get Linux on the desktop in earnest.
Over my dead body. I can't stand KDE 4.0. It was nice under KDE 3.5 but KDE 4.0 just flat out didn't work well enough for me, broke my installation, screwed up my kernel, and you want me to go and do this again? I think it will be nice to run Qt applications under Gnome, which I can do just fine, while the KDE people go off into plasma la-la land.
The only reason I really liked KDE was because of KDevelop for C++, but KDevelop is languishing these days and NetBeans 6.5 seems just as good for C++ as KDevelop ever did.
This is my sig.
While competition is generally a good thing I think the fight between Gnome and KDE has seriously hampered the adoption of Linux on the desktop (even if there hadn't been a fight I don't think we would see widespread Linux use on the Desktop but it would be greater than it is). The problem was that they were both good, for different reasons, and both had a good developer base the end result of which was a battle neither side could really win and we all lost from.
While I would hate to see Gnome consigned to the dustbin I think it's about time they gave up and admitted that KDE has won (flame away). I admit that KDE isn't perfect, far from it, but KDE4+ is streets ahead of Gnome now and the big hurdle to widespread use by companies has now vanished.
I used to have a better sig but it broke.
Right, one desktop's programs for everybody! Because people really want to use Kopete under KDE instead of Pidgin (bahahahaha) or any of the GNOME text editors under GNOME instead of something like Kate (baaaaaaaaahahahahaha).
Users are more or less forced to mix them up, and I still have clipboard issues with crossing between applications to this day.
"You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time."
No, the GPL just presumes to attempt to restrict what I do with my code that has no GPL code in it. Which is within their rights, but thoroughly corrupt and domineering of them.
Which makes sense, as Stallman is the ugliest type of human being--the zealot.
"You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time."
Rather than you attempting to restrict what people do with their computers :) How horrible it is that someone might tell you not to restrict others! That's telling someone what to do! It's bossy and mean!
For every problem, there is at least one solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
Fact is, KDE 4, even 4.2, still has some horrendous UI issues that the developers just dismiss. I switched from GNOME to KDE to avoid Mono/.NET, but with KDE 4 I feel like they're heading even further in the wrong direction as far as UI design is concerned. KDE 3 had too many settings but behaved more or less as you'd expect from other UIs; KDE 4 has hardly any settings and behaves in weird and freaky ways unlike any other desktop environment.
GCHQ Quantum Insert installed. If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak
The terms are immoral; the person writing GPL code (and in some cases, keep in mind that this code can sometimes be the only way of interfacing with something, such as the KDE environment) is essentially blocking off not only proprietary development, but the development of open source that doesn't live and breathe according to Stallman's principles.
It attempts to force ideological conformity. It is immoral.
"You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time."
The GPL doesn't tell you what you can do with your code. It doesn't cover use of the code at all, only distribution.
The GPL is nature's way of making Linux similarly attractive.
The GPL isn't the reason why people use Linux (barring a small handful of nutjobs, the type that make up a significant amount of BSD users). People use it because it's better.
You're being an idiot and hair-splitting in order to dodge the fact that the majority of software's "use" (by the creator) is at least in some form predicated on distribution. I can't distribute something that links to the GPL (which is a "use" as far as I am concerned, because I am using my code--specifically, my use is distribution).
It's their right to license under the GPL, of course, just as it's my right to refuse to license anything under the GPL (I license under BSD or CDDL), due to the cretinousness of the GPL. So I don't use GPL libraries and I encourage others to avoid them as well because of the inherent immorality of GNU's stance on software "freedom" (which is not freedom at all), as is also my right.
Not a hard concept.
"You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time."
...every binding I've seen for QT sucks, including the commercial binding for Java that trolltech themselves wrote.
Bullshit.
Note that Trolltech even admits it sucks
Double bullshit.
Your last sentence might be informative, but still you're mostly trolling.
Why the heck is this modded down as a troll? Yet more evidence that the Slashdot moderation system is seriously broken.
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!
Yours do seem to be getting modded up, yes.
"You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time."