Star A Look at Trolltech and Qt 4
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 4th Nov 2005 14:41 UTC
Qt Two recent articles cover the success of Trolltech and their product Qt 4, on which KDE 4 will be based. 'Trolltech: A case study in open source business' looks at the continued growth of the company based on dual licenced Free Software. The article describes what KDE and Trolltech gain from each other, including user feedback to Trolltech and sponsored developers for KDE. The Australian Computerworld declares that Qt 4 raises the bar for cross-platform app dev tools. They cover the separate modules of Qt 4 and the cross-platform quality, giving it a 9.2 out of 10 approval rating.
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RE[4]: money for nothing?
by lezard on Fri 4th Nov 2005 19:58 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: money for nothing?"
lezard
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2005-10-11

Excuse me, but in my world, developers cost more or less 500€ a day. That means that if I think I can save by using QT 6 days of work, it is a good investment.

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RE[5]: money for nothing?
by Ramsees2 on Fri 4th Nov 2005 20:03 in reply to "RE[4]: money for nothing?"
Ramsees2 Member since:
2005-09-27

Excuse me, but in my world, developers cost more or less 500€ a day.

Excuse me, but in poor countries there's no chance a developer spend so much money on a expensive Qt license, and there's is where GTK is beter welcome. Qt is for richter like adove and Google, but for the people GTK is the choice.

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RE[6]: money for nothing?
by lezard on Fri 4th Nov 2005 20:08 in reply to "RE[5]: money for nothing?"
lezard Member since:
2005-10-11

So, you're not the target, and ?
Why should they care, it is not a non-profit organization, their target is big companies.
Don't tell me QT is the only choice you have ?

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RE[6]: money for nothing?
by segedunum on Fri 4th Nov 2005 22:03 in reply to "RE[5]: money for nothing?"
segedunum Member since:
2005-07-06

Excuse me, but in poor countries there's no chance a developer spend so much money on a expensive Qt license

If you can't afford a Qt license, or indeed, any other type of license, then any software you sell isn't going to make very much or sell at all and you're not going to make a any kind of a living out of it. Yes, in a developing country.

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