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Linked by David Adams on Wed 6th Aug 2008 15:32 UTC

After 10 years of supporting Linux, IBM continues to challenge Microsoft on multiple fronts and aims to push Linux even further into the enterprise. While IBM has competed and partnered with Microsoft over the last two decades, the Microsoft-free PC effort is perhaps its most direct assault yet. "The idea of Microsoft-free personal computing has been in the air for a while," Inna Kuznetsova, director of Linux at IBM, told InternetNews.com. "We're just partnering with Linux distribution vendors and hardware vendors to make it happen."

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RE[3]: Now maybe....

by luzr on Thu 7th Aug 2008 08:43 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Now maybe...."

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2005-11-20

I would say wrong on that one. You can produce proprietary closesd source software for linux if you use libraries that have a static linking exception to their open source licenses like FLTK, wxWidgets x11/Universal (NOT GTK or MOTIF because these would have to be dynamically linked ONLY to satisfy the LGPL without the linking exception and therefore have "dependency hell" problems) and do not use the "dependency hell" creating dynamic link method of producing binary software.

Well, I guess this supports my point: If you need a good integration, you need GTK - and that one is possible as .so only....

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RE[4]: Now maybe....

by ichi on Thu 7th Aug 2008 08:55 in reply to "RE[3]: Now maybe...."

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2007-03-06

Well, I guess this supports my point: If you need a good integration, you need GTK - and that one is possible as .so only....

Just use Qt with the license that fits your proyect better.

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