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Re: Qt's success
by Eric Laffoon on Wednesday 01/Sep/2004, @16:28

I don't know the exact statistics of Qt in house development, but I know they have had a great deal of success on Windows and that roughly 80% of software development is said to be in house. So this is a huge number no matter how you look at it. Personally I trust that the people at Trolltech are making decisions that are good for free software as well as their business, and I can see how both benefit from our relationship. If I thought it was advantageous to argue for free software on Windows I would, but I don't.

The FSFE statement seems ludicrous to me, because it could just as easily have been "we have a problem with supporting free software on Windows because it props up an operating system that is hostile to free software in general and since we believe that free software is the future we want to encourage people to move to free platforms instead of supporting companies that would like to find a way to destroy freedoms." That would be a much better statement.

In my experience the Windows world is much more concerned with free as in beer than free as in freedom, and this argument really comes down to that. Who is going to tell me that having access to source code is of any importance to Windows users? I don't see where free Qt on Windows doesn't do more harm than good in a number of ways.

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Re: Qt's success
by Ingo Klöcker on Thursday 02/Sep/2004, @01:41

> Who is going to tell me that having access to source code is of any importance to Windows users?

So you are trying to tell us that we shouldn't even try to change the attitude of the Windows users?

I find your generalization very inappropriate. Get real. The more users Linux gains the less important will the availibility of the source code be to the majority of Linux users. Why? Simply because the majority of computer users doesn't care for having access to the source code regardless of the operation system they are using.

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