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Re: OT: 'usability' hype
by pinky on Wednesday 01/Mar/2006, @16:44

sorry, but this is just bullshit.

>This is similar to Qt's dual licensing, but not the same. Qt Free Edition is guaranteed to always be the real thing, but Mono can always be replaced/surpassed by a more powerful proprietary offer from Novell.

Qt and Mono facing exactly the same situation.

Qt: Trolltech can theoretically decide to drop the Free Qt. What will happen? The last free version will have to be released under a BSD-style license so Qt will be available for free and non-free software.

Mono: Novell can theoretically decide to drop the free Mono. But the community can still keep the last free version and go on with it. Mono doesn't need a contract to release a last free version under another license like Qt because Mono is already licensed for the use for free and non-free software.

So whether Trolltech or Novell become "evil" in both cases the community will keep a framework which can be used for free and non-free software.

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Re: OT: 'usability' hype
by Nicolas Goutte on Thursday 02/Mar/2006, @00:55

And the last Qt version would still be GPL too

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Re: OT: 'usability' hype
by mihnea on Thursday 02/Mar/2006, @00:55

> So whether Trolltech or Novell become "evil" in both cases the community will keep a framework which can be used for free and non-free software.

Agreed (with some details I won't go into). But the whole point was that corporations are not interested in technology, so don't expect them to support KDE just because it has great technology. This is not "just bullshit", it's a matter of lucidity, and of not wasting efforts (and peace of mind).

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