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Re: Excellent and enlightening speech!
by Iuri Fiedoruk on Monday 21/Jan/2008, @03:46

>a lot more commercial and proprietary applications based on KDE libraries

Should not happen, once KDE is GPL. Too bad, I would like this also. Luckly they can do Qt programs that will look well uintegrated in KDE.

About the other commentary, I don't think proprietary technology is bad per-se and we can't like in a aquarium forever, so let's do a reality check:
Does most of web sites today use flash? Yes
Does a big part of them *require* flash to work properly? Yes
Do we have a free native qt/kde implementation of flash? No

Sure, the ideal would be to have SVG+JavaScript, but not even free platafforms support those very well, so unless we have a better product to offer (see Firefox, XVid and others) using something proprietary is a need :-(

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Re: Excellent and enlightening speech!
by Morty on Monday 21/Jan/2008, @04:13

>>a lot more commercial and proprietary applications based on KDE libraries

>Should not happe, nonce KDE is GPL

It will happen, it's designed for this. The KDE libraries are LGPL/BSD to allow this. This has been KDE library policy since forewer. Whatever license KDE applications use(GPL2, GPL3, BSD, MIT, QPL, EPL etc), can not change this.

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Re: Excellent and enlightening speech!
by Iuri Fiedoruk on Tuesday 22/Jan/2008, @09:18

So my mistake here, but I *ever* read articles stating that kdelibs where GPL and this was one of the advantages of gnome (lGPL) over kde.

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Re: Excellent and enlightening speech!
by Grósz Dániel on Wednesday 23/Jan/2008, @13:02

Qt is GPL or commercial. So to develop commercial KDE software one has to purchase an expensive commercial Qt license but one can use KDE libs in the commercial product.

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Re: Excellent and enlightening speech!
by Kevin Kofler on Monday 21/Jan/2008, @05:56

I can do fine without Flash, thank you very much.
Moreover, there is Klash (from the Gnash project) now.

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Re: Excellent and enlightening speech!
by Iuri Fiedoruk on Tuesday 22/Jan/2008, @09:19

I can't because of youtube, charges.com.br and other fun sites.
I can live without them, but and where all the fun will be? ;)

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