Re: OFFTOPIC: GTK and alternative GUIs and windowing systems in Linux

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 11 Feb 1998 10:30:11 +0000 (GMT)


> This is such a bogus argument. It's unfortunate that the sole driving
> reason for GNOME over KDE is faulty. Qt is free for developing free
> software. If you want to develop software for profit, you purchase the
> commercial license. Is that so hard?

Obviously since you dont understand the meaning of the words "Free Software"

> I don't mean to offend anyone with this response, but I find it hard to
> believe TrollTech isn't at all offended by the misleading claim made by
> GNOME-supporters that Qt is not free, including the GNOME web-pages (last
> time I checked).

Qt is not free in a free software sense. I've never heard Troll Tech object
to that claim either. Its a proprietary unmodifiable toolkit that happens to
have zero cost in certain cases.

> eventually, not because it deserves to, but because the public is being
> misinformed.

By people like you

[Take this to kde-licensing] - or join the FreeQT project to write a QT clone
at that point the issue becomes moot

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