Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 4th Nov 2005 14:41 UTC
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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2005-07-12
How about JUCE?
http://www.rawmaterialsoftware.com/juce/
License is (£399 = $705 / £699 = $1235)+VAT for commercial licenses for one/multiple products respectively. It's GPL'ed, it's got a lively forum, the guy who wrote it used it to write Tracktion
http://www.mackie.com/products/tracktion2/
- certainly a commercial quality application.
One could write a desktop like KDE or commercial, cross-platform apps in this, at a fraction of the cost of a QT-license. And it looks the same on all platforms!
...ooh...right. That's the problem. It looks identical on all platforms, not native.
We, of course, all know that iTunes, Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop Album and Express, Cubase, Logic, Ahead Nero, the windows calculator, Ad-Aware, ZoneAlarm, RealPlayer, Finale, Sibelius, SoundDiver, ICQ, Messenger, Opera, Reason, Blender, etc. and all these other not-so-popular apps use STANDARD widgets for everything.
I haven't bought the license for JUCE yet, but already I have received personal answers from the developer on all questions relating to his framework, although he IS a busy man.
So, question is, what does the extra $3300-$705 = $2595 buy me? Support, I guess. And more time for the developers to improve features, nicer rooms for them to work in, maybe nicer keyboards to type on. Do I want to pay that much money? No. Should somebody else be allowed to?
Yes, most certainly. It is not and never was my business.
-Mike
Edited 2005-11-05 14:32