Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 14th Aug 2007 22:04 UTC
"We want to develop a free and complete set of user friendly applications and desktop tools, similar to CDE and KDE but based entirely on free software." Those were the opening lines of Miguel De Icaza's email announcing the GNU Network Object Model Environment, better known as GNOME, exactly (in my timezone) ten years ago, on 15th August 1997. They have come a long way from this, to this.
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RE[4]: Reply to Miguel's post
by Temcat on Thu 16th Aug 2007 07:52
in reply to "RE[3]: Reply to Miguel's post"
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"..you have to buy a commercial license from Trolltech. That could restrict commercial development of QT-based proprietary apps (mobile apps, games etc.)"
Riiight...and having to purchase a Visual Studio license restricts proprietary Windows software development. Gotcha.