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Free Software Faces a Test With Qt
An anonymous reader writes with an article in TechRadar. From the article: "Thanks to Nokia's jump to Windows Phone 7, from the frying pan into the fire, its Free Software darling, the Qt toolkit, has been left living on vague promises and shell-shocked, hollow enthusiasm. Nokia has pledged some continued investment, bonuses for developers who stick with the platform and even a phone or two that might use it. But the truth is that Qt is deprecated, the project has stalled, and its future is uncertain."
3) Stop believing in crap opinion pieces by random know-nothings on the web.
... where a reputable news source would have checked its sources for accuracy first. stagnated and stalled? Hmm... Just two weeks ago we had very different news.
In reality, even if Qt stopped dead in the water with no development from anyone, it'd still be one of the best documented GUI libraries out there. I've never been a fanboy of any particular software suite, but the more and more I've dove into Qt in the last year the more I'm truly impressed with the design and documentation of the toolkit. Somehow I don't think it's going away.
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... hasn't QT been LGPL'd? I don't see the problem.
Some feel that Qt's superiority stems from its corporate sponsorship, and that being "demoted" to a sponsorless open-source project like GTK will result in a loss in quality. Others (like me) think that a lot of the quality is in the product design itself and that while development may slow down post-Nokia, it will still provide a superior open source toolkit for the forseeable future.
Hilarious. Translated: March faster to oblivion.
What fool would buy a Nokia smartphone after all the jerking around of customers and developers? The sad thing is Nokia had the best actual phone technology in the business (i.e., actually making calls with good voice quality).
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The only truth here is that the article was written by a completely ignorant asshat.
So I took all the core features and wrote a unified wrapper around all of the major toolkit APIs: pure Win32, GTK+ and Qt.
It sounds like you reinvented wxWidgets?
I said stop believing, not stop reading. If you stopped reading Slashdot, then how would you know whom to flame?
It was GPL/commercial dual licence for ages, and more recently LGPL'd.
Development is continuing, this is a complete FUD non-story. Qt isn't going to disappear even if Nokia did.
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Most of the developers I know that use Qt don't like KDE. They use Qt for C++ development that must be cross platformed. If KDE starts to dominate the library then I see the writing on the wall...