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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License is the root problem
by Jon Smirl on Thu 13th Mar 2003 19:11 UTC

Redhat is forced into creating Gnome. RH can't go into a commerical account and make a sale of their big $$$ products and then say: "Oh by the way, you need to go buy licenses from Trolltech for all of your internal developers". This is politically impossible. Sun and IBM won't do it either.

QT has to go LGPL or RH will keep build Gnome.

I doubt that Trolltech is worth more than $200M, probably less. RH could easily acquire them. What are Trolltech's revenues?