Yesterday we reported on GoBE 
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Or all of the above... it seems there's still more of the story to unfold from all the rumors: will the other company actually manage (or at least are trying to) purchase BeOS from Access, and what, exactly, is their aim?
It seems it's all fork()ed up, and GoBe Productive is going away from BeOS/Haiku, and BeOS is... likely going away from Haiku, if it is going anywhere at all.
Even if they buy out the rights and code to BeOS from Access, I can't help but think that Haiku will end up being the long-term winner of the contest for mindshare, at least in the rest of the world: it seems they (the other company) are looking perhaps to sell to the Indian market, and perhaps that'll work well, given a pre-defined set of known-working hardware for a cheap system base. But, time will tell...
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This is the first evidence of ISV recognition of KDE4. The work the KDE guys have put into the "pillars" of their new version mean companies like Gobe (plc/inc/corp/productive/etc) can target KDE as a base, and pretty much automatically get a Mac product also.
Great news Gobe is back, though I reserve any enthusiasm until I can see and test a killer product 
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they are all LGPL. you can read the KDE licensing policy that covers these things here: http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy
as usual, it's on techbase and nicely filed in the Policies area. =)
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the problem with KDE is that QT the underlying components are Pay-for or GPL... only... they want the devloper license money so there is no LGPL. That's the main difference with Gnome being LGPL that allows developers to use the structure for free in pay-for products.
Distros like RedHat and Ubuntu feel that choosing GPL-only as a desktop will cut off ISV developer support and that Gnome with LGPL makes more sense. Considering there's the danger of the MS-Novell agreement "poisioning the [IP] water hole" so to speak TrollTech could do better if they worked the PR spin better for QT.
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There are two license models for the Qt toolkit. There is a proprietary license for proprietary software with a dollar amount attached to it. Then there is the GPLv2 licensed toolkit for open source software which is free as long as the code is open. Both licenses are cross platform.
Two links to the license matrix and overview.
http://trolltech.com/products/qt/licenses/licensing/matrix
http://trolltech.com/products/qt/licenses/licensing/licensingovervi...
I'm reading this as he meant GoBe Productive would get ported to Linux, and maybe other Unices? , with Qt as the widget toolkit. That would in turn allow them to port Productive to OS X without having to change widget sets. I don't think he meant that Productive was going to be tied to KDE specifically.
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If he writes "KDE", I would guess he means "KDE"... And that makes a lot of sense. I _know_ how much KDE delivers to the office suite builder on top of Qt.
Their current Linux port, the one they couldn't get stable is based on GTK1.
Just for the record, Qt is now also licensed under GPLv3 and comes with a host of licensing exceptions.
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Yes, Qt can link to GPLv2, GPLv3, or code under any of the following licenses:
Academic Free License
2.0 or 2.1
Apache Software License
1.0 or 1.1
Apache License
2.0
Apple Public Source License
2.0
Artistic license
From Perl 5.8.0
BSD license
"July 22 1999"
Common Public License
1.0
GNU Library or "Lesser"
General Public License (LGPL)
2.0 or 2.1
Jabber Open Source License
1.0
MIT License
(as attached)
Mozilla Public License (MPL)
1.0 or 1.1
Open Software License
2.0
OpenSSL license (with original
SSLeay license) "2003" ("1998")
PHP License
3.0
Python license (CNRI Python License)
(as attached)
Python Software Foundation License
2.1.1
Q Public License
v1.0
Sleepycat License
"1999"
W3C License
"2001"
X11 License
X11R6.6
Zlib/libpng License
(as attached)
Zope Public License
2.0
I believe the KDE libraries are LGPL, or at least they used to be. I haven't heard anything about the newer ones so I would assume they are the same.
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Developing with KDE4 APIs does not equate to being tied to KDE specifically. Beyond being able to run KDE4 apps pretty well anywhere these days, many of the KDE4 frameworks have no interdependencies making selecting to use one or more of them fairly straightforward and without requiring commitment to the whole kit and kaboodle.
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KDE4 is not mentioned in the article, KDE in general is though.
Also it only suggests that QT might be the toolkit in use for the Mac version by pointing out that having a working Linux KDE port would bring them close to a Mac version as well - and quess this could be said for *BSD as well...
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KDE4 + QT = goodness. They would certainly be able to make a windows version in addition to Mac and Linux versions. The porting process has become relatively painless from what we've seen over at http://windows.kde.org
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I think that they would be better off working with Haiku and selling a 'commercialised version' which bundles their office suite and support with it. BeOS is all very nice but it is very dated, will require major investment - it would probably better off working with a clean slate and modern approaches to design and implementation than trying to hack around decisions made 8 years ago.
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do you know of any other OS which has more then a 100 users which is more modern than Linux, Windows or MacOS?
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why can't that be a serious comment?
BeOS was created as a totally new operating system in the 1990s; Linux is a remake of UNIX, created at the end of the 1960s. Why else did you think you have to trick Linux into thinking you're poking away on a teletype terminal to get anything done in it?
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unless they do something unique, go online, go super-cross platform, something special, there's not much there. I loved the layout and function.. it performed well for being a small program. But it was neglected after BeOS... and again since the 3.0 release. Versions of documents are incompatible between releases and the last version available trashed even 3.0.3 - 3.0.4 docs, making recovery of documents a huge hassle. At this point, NeoOffice is my new favorite, a good port of OpenOffice.org. I'd like better Visio-like diagraming functions tied to data and programming, something Gobe Excelled at was quick diagrams and easy printing.
Unless they have something really good.. and ODF support, they're out of date now.