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Re: how about native Cocoa KDE port?
by ac on Saturday 03/Jan/2004, @02:31

Look, Trolltech tells on their site being cross-platform, but what this really seems to mean is: let uss create "leading" sources and let others do the porting which might or might not work. Those doing the porting cannot earn money which we CAN make from their porting by requering money for non GPL code.

All this is not really Qt pursuing being cross-platform in my book. If you call all this "me limiting myself in my own egocentric needs" then so be it!

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Re: how about native Cocoa KDE port?
by agsnu on Saturday 03/Jan/2004, @03:28

What exactly are you on about? Trolltech developed and maintains all of their own ports, AFAICT.

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Re: how about native Cocoa KDE port?
by cm on Saturday 03/Jan/2004, @06:44

I guess there's some confusion here:

AFAIK:
- There's the win version of Qt3 which is a native version completely
written by Trolltech, *not* available under the GPL.
and
- then there's the cygwin version which is a port of the GPLed X11
version of Qt. This port has nothing to do with Trolltech.

So Trolltech writes and maintains the versions they claim to.
But:
> and kde-cygwin certainly does seem *NOT* seem to be a Qt lead project."

It's certainly not a Trolltech project. No one claimed that.
If you want Trolltech's win version of Qt you'll have to buy it.

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Re: how about native Cocoa KDE port?
by ac on Saturday 03/Jan/2004, @08:59

Yes it seems I was wrong on the part where I thought Trolltech could make money of other peoples porting work.

The last post does indicate Trolltech hardly directly supports or encoureges GPL software under windows using their Qt library, I just think that's a sorry state of affairs. A different approach on Trolltechs part could move many more developers to start using Qt for cross platform stuff.

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Re: how about native Cocoa KDE port?
by Datschge on Saturday 03/Jan/2004, @23:24

I'm sure Trolltech might consider again releasing a GPL'ed Qt/Win when a KDE release on OSX should considerably increase the number of commercial Qt/Mac licencees. If that doesn't happen then a GPL'ed Qt/Win is very unlikely in the future considering the very bad experience with the previous free version.

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