Thinking on the issue of licensing and KDE, an old hymn came to the mind of OfB's Tim Butler. "As it was in the beginning, is now, And ever shall be
" Yes, the issue of licensing has been a perennial problem for the Free/Open Source desktop and he suggests its biggest licensing issue remains: the GPL. Read more at OfB.biz
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Member since:2005-07-06
Member since:2005-07-06
As I did mention earlier, there are a couple musty testing kits for Qt. And some sort of mainframe-style table widget. You could probably dig up some crufty stuff from Qt 1.0 and tell people about that too.
As Trolltech says themselves on their website, there is indeed nothing for Qt4.
If you look at the URL's for .net, java, mfc, etc., you will see that Qt effectively has *zero* support compared to other platforms. The lack of third-party support for Qt is shocking.
A corporate developer who considers cost and time to market would never pick Qt as Qt is the ultimate example of forcing the developer to reinvent the wheel.
It is a shame Trolltech never got on the ball to create a vibrant developer community around Qt. It is just a small little pond of Qt clubbers who can afford licensing fees that make Microsoft look like a bargain.
Member since:3rd party support? There are literally mountains of high quality OSS 3rd party libraries, testing frameworks, etc, which work perfectly fine with Qt and are licesed under BSD, MIT, X11, Lgpl, MPL, yadda yadda. In short, there is a dearth of 3rd party commercial offerings for Qt for precisely the same reason that there are a dearth of such offerings for GTK; it's not license, but be abundance of "good enough" solutions available under an OSS license.
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As there is an odd chance that someone actually believes pravda in that there are no third-party tools/components around Qt, here is evidence that destroys his argument:
http://www.scl.com/qt/
http://www.froglogic.com/
http://www.klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se/?page=products
All these are commercial packages.
On http://www.thekompany.com there are some commercial tools for Qt too.
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