Comment Toll Tech isn't that bad... (Score 1) 197
Hello all,
I have the strange feeling, that nobody ever talked with Troll Tech people kindly enough to see their point of view.
It's some time ago I've asked Troll Tech to make Qt cheaper aviable let's say for Shareware programmers. I told them I understand the fact that Qt is their business and they need to get money in a way from it (which is simply a fact! Troll tech is not university driven...). So to make a sort of "shareware"-licence to spread their product over the world and give poeople working with Qt the chance to build a business would be a way to get more money in a long term.
And what they told me? They told me they HAD a shareware-licence for cheap products made with Qt. The licence cost 100 $ (which is really cheap). With this licence you where even be able to sell the product instead to just give it away GPLed.
But they don't have this package anymore.
Why?
They sold only one (!) package. It was a total desaster!
So I think instead to always getting down Troll Tech and tell them how they could do it better and how they could make money instead of selling the package in any way: please be realistic. It seems like there is no better chance to get money out of Qt instead of selling it for 1000$ per package on Windows.
KDE uses Qt for widgets because it is a good library. But just because KDE is GPL means not that Troll tech has to be fully GPLed too.
Windows is not GPL and I think this is the bigger problem than Qt.
BTW if you don't like the whole Qt-business, use GTK+, which is aviable on Windows too and you'll find GTK+ on every serious Linux-machine because of GIMP.
There is absolutely no reason to use Qt under KDE and Windows if you don't like their licence.
Cheers
Boessu
I have the strange feeling, that nobody ever talked with Troll Tech people kindly enough to see their point of view.
It's some time ago I've asked Troll Tech to make Qt cheaper aviable let's say for Shareware programmers. I told them I understand the fact that Qt is their business and they need to get money in a way from it (which is simply a fact! Troll tech is not university driven...). So to make a sort of "shareware"-licence to spread their product over the world and give poeople working with Qt the chance to build a business would be a way to get more money in a long term.
And what they told me? They told me they HAD a shareware-licence for cheap products made with Qt. The licence cost 100 $ (which is really cheap). With this licence you where even be able to sell the product instead to just give it away GPLed.
But they don't have this package anymore.
Why?
They sold only one (!) package. It was a total desaster!
So I think instead to always getting down Troll Tech and tell them how they could do it better and how they could make money instead of selling the package in any way: please be realistic. It seems like there is no better chance to get money out of Qt instead of selling it for 1000$ per package on Windows.
KDE uses Qt for widgets because it is a good library. But just because KDE is GPL means not that Troll tech has to be fully GPLed too.
Windows is not GPL and I think this is the bigger problem than Qt.
BTW if you don't like the whole Qt-business, use GTK+, which is aviable on Windows too and you'll find GTK+ on every serious Linux-machine because of GIMP.
There is absolutely no reason to use Qt under KDE and Windows if you don't like their licence.
Cheers
Boessu
