Comment QT is worth it... (Score 1) 718
"you act as if Qt were the only option around. What about GTK+ and wxWindows?"
Well, you may not forget that the next KDE version ( 4.0 ) will ship Windows and Mac OS X versions of kdelibs and kdepimlibs ( both LGPL, which means you can link against them even in closed source products ), too. This gives you most likely the biggest open source desktop software package on the planet. Qt itself has many more features than only simple widget drawing and has more advanced features like signals and slots. The comparison to wxWidgets is rather improper, unless you program some light-weight basic application.
Please DO NOT DEVELOP Microsoft Windows versions only. This is what you do when you use .NET, since 1. Mono is not 100% compatible and you may not support it after you've developed a complex .NET application and 2. Mono can get some patent issues sometime in the future 3. you won't port it to Linux (Mono/C/C++) and Mac OS X (Objective C) once you reach 95% of the market, if safing money is what you want.
Supporting only Windows is no more about 'do good', this is definitly bad.
And as already mentioned above, why not develop open source!? If you are a rather small company, then you should consider using opensource licenses to push your product on the market and sell the best support for it. You've already found out how much it can be worth ;-).
By the way, finding information about most common opensource product problems on the net is not that hard, is it? It shouldn't be too difficult to set some standard RedHat environment up and keep it up to date via yum.
"1) Patches. MS releases patches for Windows and everything associated with it, and tests those patches to make sure they work. If an incompatibility is found (it's rare one survives the initial testing) it gets fixed."
In the end may I add some flaming ;-): It is not right that you get good support by Microsoft. Most patches take way to long until they end up on your system. Have you ever tried Metasploit? There's no easier way to install a VNC-Server on your Windows XP box...
Well, you may not forget that the next KDE version ( 4.0 ) will ship Windows and Mac OS X versions of kdelibs and kdepimlibs ( both LGPL, which means you can link against them even in closed source products ), too. This gives you most likely the biggest open source desktop software package on the planet. Qt itself has many more features than only simple widget drawing and has more advanced features like signals and slots. The comparison to wxWidgets is rather improper, unless you program some light-weight basic application.
Please DO NOT DEVELOP Microsoft Windows versions only. This is what you do when you use
Supporting only Windows is no more about 'do good', this is definitly bad.
And as already mentioned above, why not develop open source!? If you are a rather small company, then you should consider using opensource licenses to push your product on the market and sell the best support for it. You've already found out how much it can be worth
By the way, finding information about most common opensource product problems on the net is not that hard, is it? It shouldn't be too difficult to set some standard RedHat environment up and keep it up to date via yum.
"1) Patches. MS releases patches for Windows and everything associated with it, and tests those patches to make sure they work. If an incompatibility is found (it's rare one survives the initial testing) it gets fixed."
In the end may I add some flaming
