Rumors circulating that Novell is going to kill off its popular Linux desktop lines are completely false. [However,] Novell is making one large strategic change. The GNOME interface is going to become the default interface on both the SLES and Novell Linux Desktop line. KDE libraries will be supplied on both, but the bulk of Novell's interface moving forward will be on GNOME. "The entire KDE graphical interface and product family will continue to be supported and delivered on OpenSuSE."
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Member since:2005-07-18
You have it backwards Superstoned, WE are the ones that are begging for commerical support. If we want commerical software like that which is avaliable on Windows and Mac OSX, we have to be as developer friendly as possible. Forcing a company to pay $3300 per developer just to develop on Linux* would be suicide. Even Microsoft's development tools are cheaper!
*Yes, $3300 for just Linux, then $4950 for two platforms and $6600 for 3 platforms and all of that is for ONE developer. Could you imagine how much money a small company would have to pay to develop on Linux? WOW!
Member since:2005-07-15
>WE are the ones that are begging for commerical support.
Does WE are really doing this? Does WE are begging for commercial support? Does we are begging for proprietary Software? Does we are begging for both? Or maybe for nothing of both?
Who are you that you think you can talk for US?
>Yes, $3300 for just Linux, then $4950 for two platforms and $6600 for 3 platforms and all
No, $3300 is for all 3 platforms. $3300 for the best cross-platform toolkit you can get. $3300 for the best C++ Framework. $3300 for maintainig ONE code for ALL platforms. $3300 for a great tool if a single project has a value of more 100000 dollars, that's the best bargain everyone can get!
Member since:*Yes, $3300 for just Linux, then $4950 for two platforms and $6600 for 3 platforms and all of that is for ONE developer. Could you imagine how much money a small company would have to pay to develop on Linux? WOW!
Let's see. (I'd probably better check your figures, but I'll just take them at face value for now).
Assuming the company is in Germany, OK? Assuming it has 6 developers. Assuming 3 of them work with Qt, and they develop multi-platform. Ready?
1st year:
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+ 3x annual wage, plus health, tax, insurance:
(per developer 50.000.- )........ 210.000.- EUR
+ 3x license (a 6.600.- )............. 19.800.- EUR
2nd year:
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+ 3x annual wage, plus health, tax, insurance:
(per developer 70.000.- )........ 210.000.- EUR
+ 3x license (a 0.000.- ).............. 0.000.- EUR
It's less than a 10% increase of costs in the 1st year, just compared with wages, and 0% increase in all the following years.
Trolltech licenses includes world-class support. They are known to make developers so much more productive and writing code that contains far fewer bugs. It allows them to sell any amount of derived software, on any platform.
I call this a bargain.
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Member since:
2005-07-07
"I don't think the majority of KDE users are aware that developers making commercial applications have to pay a royalty if they use the QT toolkit. For me this is a good enough reason to avoid KDE."
Looks like most OSS users are no longer aware you have to pay for proprietary software... I considder it totally fair the company's that force you to pay for your software are forced to pay for their development tools. especially if their payments are used for improving OSS! (Trolltech uses lots of this money to pay KDE and X developers)