Not to mention the new laws that are being proposed about using less power in TV's. When I turned off flash I doubled the battery life of my macbook. Using ads in ads is widespread enough that it it seems to be always running using up a good chunk of cpu.

Why didn't you just tell every student to change the screensaver and turn on the monitor power management at your next class?

He ripped off my childhood!

The year that gmail launched was better. Every story was so unbelievable that it was assumed to be a joke, but it turned out they were all true.

Who cares about 90% of software, we are talking about browsers. Browsers come on all platforms these days. And to top this Chome is advertising on slashdot which is known for have tons of Windows Loving users and users who like to talk about windows only software in positive ways. As long as Chrome does not exist on LInux or exists in a form that is a joke expect it to get trashed on slashdot. And for the second part I have contributed to Chrome to help get it to compile on Linux, but it is a long way off before these is anything close to what a user would expect. Chrome really has a PR problem with Linux which a lot of early adopters use.

What about Iris

After the rc was released the last fixes went in so 4.5.0 QtWebKit gets 100/100 on the acid3 test.

Every time you visit any website you tell them exactly what you are doing. What pages you go to, what links you click on and even what link brought you to this site. Using javascript they can even see where you mouse goes on every page. They have a complete log of every page you visited on their site. Scared? What user indeed.

Fun small world :) mem mapping was a feature I added to Qt 4.4. I even wrote a blog entry on it on labs.trolltech.com http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2007/10/15/file-mapping/

On the startup issue I think it was many times applications and not Qt that were slow. For Arora ( http://arora-browser.org/) I spent time making it startup very quick. I wanted to be able to launch the browser from nothing whenever I clicked on a link. Feel free to check it out yourself and see how fast startup can be. Qt 4.5 has improved performance across the board and no doubt some of that will help on startup also.

Should be out before summer, on #qt people are saying March.

Sounds like it is pretty core to the company. If that is so it is probably worth paying a developer to fix the issues that you need fixed. Even something on rent-a-coder, the cost of the developer will no doubt be cheaper then the MS office license price and you get to be in control.

You could do something like trolltech and make a dual license library.