Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 28th Apr 2006 13:59 UTC
"Despite the head start that KDE enjoyed, the large number of KDE users and developers, and Linus Torvalds personally endorsing KDE, GNOME has won the desktop environment battle. The final victory came with the third piece of a corporate trifecta, giving GNOME the official nod from Red Hat, Sun Microsystems, and finally Novell. The question is, will the triumph of GNOME lead to the rise or downfall of the Linux desktop?" Run Forrest! Run!
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RE[3]: sounds biased to me
by antonis00 on Fri 28th Apr 2006 18:49
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RE[4]: sounds biased to me
by Mitarai on Fri 28th Apr 2006 18:55
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2005-11-12
KDE does Not suffer from ANY licensing issues...
Well, not exactly. Free applications written using QT widgets don't require a license but commercial applications do require one.
I could also make one suggestion to the poster: if you are going to put things in caps indicating you are yelling correct information you might want to actually *read* the license first.
Directly from KDE's site:
...the use of the KDE libraries is free of charge for development of commercial applications. However, the KDE libraries rely on the Qt library. Thus you will probably need to obtain a license of Qt from Trolltech.
Please, be aware of the advantage that an investment in Qt licenses brings, as it won't be limited to commercial KDE development, but it will also allow general commercial Qt development and will eventually enable multi-platform software development.
However, developing free software applications for KDE does not require a commercial Qt license.
Edited 2006-04-28 18:28