Re: X11 bashing
Martin Konold wrote:
>
> On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Larry 'Daffy' Daffner wrote:
>
> > -> Have look at the kde project.
> > [ Stuff snipped ]
> >
> > I strongly doubt that KDE has the momentum to succeed. It's based on
> > Qt, which is a proprietary standard. Granted the implementation is
> > delivered 'free for noncommercial use', but I don't see that as a
> > significant difference. It's still a proprietary toolkit, which will
> > keep the GNU crowd disinterested, as well as making it inappropriate
> > for Debian proper.
>
> In contrast to motif Qt is fully C++ OO.
> Qt comes with source. Any gpled sw can be distributed with soure or binary
> of Qt.
> Just building proprietary sw without source.. cost money.
> So it is really free and can be well used for gpled sw.
Qt forbids anybody from modifying their source code. So what
if they changed their license when they've gained enough momentum?
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