[CS-FSLUG] Re: [Foss-cafe] NI: OfB.biz: I GNU It!

[Eduardo Sanchez]

Don,

Qt/Windows is also available under the GPL. It's a recent move, so it 
may not be common knowledge yet.

Blessings,


Eduardo

On Thursday 21 July 2005 20:51, Don Parris wrote:
> On 7/21/05, Nathan T. <celerate at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I agree wholeheartedly with Aaron on this one, I missed that
> > particular point in your article Tim but it's long been my belief
> > that companies were using GTK over Qt because they wanted to harm
> > Qt as a way of punishing it for its approach to commercial
> > software.
>
> I am aware of a rift between these two communities.  I rarely login
> to KDE or GNOME, using XFce most of the time.  The only time I login
> to one of the others is when I don't remember the command for a
> specific app.  The look & feel has never been quite as important to
> me as it seems to be to some.  I do hope the two communities will
> find a way to work together, primarily because I think that's better
> than a war. Meanwhile, I still won't support proprietary software.
>
> As for which toolkit is really the best is something I'll have to
> deal with soon enough, especially given that I'm hoping to graduate
> Ekklesia from a console app to a GUI app.  Of course, since we'll be
> using the app on Windows (as well as GNU/Linux), it'll likely be TK,
> GTK, or WxWindows.  I believe I would need a QT License for Windows,
> which I can't afford.
>
> Don

-- 
Prof. Eduardo Sanchez
Asuncion, Paraguay, South America
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