Star When OSS-based Corporations and (some) OSS Hackers Clash
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 13th Mar 2003 17:43 UTC
Editorial A KDE developer tipped me off to a recent thread discussed in the kde-core-devel mailing list regarding interoperability between KDE and Gnome. OSNews featured an interview with the usability experts from Gnome and KDE a few days ago and we expected that the spirit of co-operation would continue to get stronger every day. Luckily this is true regarding most of these developers, but not for all of them are sharing it. Here is a commentary on the issue followed by a summary of the long thread.
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>>why don't they just clone QT, release it LGPL then join KDE?

>Because it took Trolltech 10 years to bring Qt in the state
>there is today. Do you think that RH or anyone else has 10
>years to spend and sit around and wait?

Perhaps the real question we should be asking is why didn't Redhat, a company that claims to be interested in desktop market, take some of the $700,000,000+ they spent on a compiler company and some questionable dot coms and use it to buy out Trolltech an standardize on Qt (thus settling this issue once and for all)? It would have given them an extremely integrated, high-quality API that is written in an object-oriented language, is very cross-platform, and has decent embedded prospects.

Linux Corporation vs. Linux Volunteer Developer is a silly battle; both sides are equally stupid and inept.