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qt free for windows
by me on Monday 24/Sep/2001, @04:32

Why are there no free qt3 beta snapshots for use with MS Visual C++ and why doesn't the qt free 2.3 version work with the author's edition of MSVC++? Is this a limitation from ms or trolltech?

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Re: qt free for windows
by Shiloh on Friday 09/Jan/2004, @23:49

Because, unfortunately, Qt for windows is ruined by greed.

New, poor developers like me are stuck with mfc or java on windows. It is pure torture. I want out, but I want my windows friends to be able to use my programs. I hate this economy.
By the way, more open source developers for windows should let Qt know they exist. Go on, start protesting! Don't make me steal $2490 from my place of work!

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Re: qt free for windows
by Datschge on Saturday 10/Jan/2004, @03:03

Why can't we just assume that a developer under Windows already paid a lot for the Windows license and the license for whatever IDE he uses, and why should he then still be too "poor" to do just the same with Qt?

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Re: qt free for windows
by Markus Erlacher on Saturday 31/Jul/2004, @09:15

I didn't pay for a Windows licence and I didn't pay for a MS Visual Studio Licence - they are free for me as I have access to MSDN Academic Alliance. I want to develop free Windows software and share it with other students of my university, but I can't afford to pay thousands of dollars to Trolltech. Why don't the rules of GPL make sense for Trolltech in the Windows environment?

And even if I had to pay for the licences, WindowsXP costs me about $100, VC++ is about $150 - how does Trolltech justify ten times this amount just for a GUI?

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Re: qt free for windows
by Datschge on Saturday 31/Jul/2004, @10:21

Microsoft let users pay per system, Trolltech let developers pay per supported platform. If you want a development platform without paying any license costs you can easily settle with an all GPL'ed system. MSDN Academic Alliance with its annual cost of US$799 per faculty/department per year isn't that cheap, even more so considering that their EULA excludes any use except educational course offered by the participating institute and related non-commercial research projects.

If your concern is all the academic area anyway why don't you just use the GPL'ed Qt? Efforts to port it to Windows are there, you could just support them if you think that's what you really need. You could also ask directly at Trolltech if they would be willing to just carbon copy that MSDN Academic Alliance thing including their EULA if that's what is needed to make you happy.

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Re: qt free for windows
by Markus Erlacher on Saturday 31/Jul/2004, @10:43

This is exactly what we do: non-commercial research in our institute, but based on a Windows platform.

Trolltech does not provide a GPL'ed Qt for Windows if I see this correctly. And we don't have the time and the money to invest in another platform or port it ourselves.
But I found a Qt/Win V2.3 on the Trolltech pages, so I think we just will work with this version, as it is free for Windows and not just an evaluation version.
But I think anyhow, that this is off-topic on a KDE forum. I just got here looking in Google for GUI development tools. Another GPL GUI Toolkit I found is Fox, and if Qt 2.3 does not satisfy us, we'll give them a chance.

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Re: qt free for windows
by Datschge on Saturday 31/Jul/2004, @11:46

Trolltech has a "Qt Educational License Request Form" at http://www.trolltech.com/forms/eduprogram.html stating "The educational license is to be used on school hardware and premises for educational purposes. If you are a professor/teacher and want to let your students use Qt/Windows in your class or course, just fill in the application form below." I guess this is what you were looking for?

Other than that there's also a more recent non-commercial version of Qt/Win, version 3.2, is included on the book "C++ GUI Programming with Qt 3", see http://www.trolltech.com/download/qt/noncomm.html

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Re: qt free for windows
by Nhoc on Wednesday 23/Nov/2005, @00:58

If you have link free download qt you can share it for me,ok?

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Re: qt free for windows
by cm on Wednesday 23/Nov/2005, @02:08

The obvious location is the download section of Trolltech, the maker of Qt:
http://www.trolltech.com/download/qt/windows.html

Make sure you read the page before downloading.

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