Linked by Andrew Youll on Wed 6th Jul 2005 06:25 UTC, submitted by Timothy R. Butler
Qt 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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RE[3]: KDE is a great Desktop.
by on Wed 6th Jul 2005 08:30 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: KDE is a great Desktop."

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>You compare a toolkit to an IDE?

I compare a complete solutions.

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RE[4]: KDE is a great Desktop.
by on Wed 6th Jul 2005 09:41 in reply to "RE[3]: KDE is a great Desktop."
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>I compare a complete solutions.

Nope, you do not. You compared Qt, a toolkit, to Visual Studio, an IDE.

What you should compare is:
Qt against MFC
or
Qt against .NET
or
Visual Studio + MFC against Visual Studio + Qt
or
Visual Studio + MFC against KDevelop + Qt
or
...

Please compare apples to apples....

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remenic Member since:
2005-07-06

The outcome would be even worse for Qt then ;)

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