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Re: Trolltech: No-Charge License for Qt/Windows
by KDE User on Tuesday 26/Jun/2001, @20:26

One of the more important implications is that this move could bring many Windows developers to KDE/Qt/Linux via Qt/Windows. Let's hope that a lot of Windows developers decide to jump on this deal.

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Re: Trolltech: No-Charge License for Qt/Windows
by dingodonkey on Wednesday 27/Jun/2001, @01:15

This is purely wishful thinking. I'd love to believe it were true.

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Re: Trolltech: No-Charge License for Qt/Windows
by Andrew on Wednesday 27/Jun/2001, @18:09

> This is purely wishful thinking. I'd love to believe it were true.

I don't think so. Win32 is has a terrible API; the only way people get anything done is by using a visual editor like Visual C++ or adopting another API like Borland C++ Builder which uses VCL. We already have Kylix from Borland which is practically C++ Builder; it uses QT. It's not a far walk to Kylix/Win or C++ Builder/QT.

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Re: Trolltech: No-Charge License for Qt/Windows
by Harold Hunt on Monday 02/Jul/2001, @22:58

> Win32 is has a terrible API; the only way people get anything done is by using a visual editor like Visual C++ or adopting another API

I disagree. All of us Cygwin and Cygwin/XFree86 developers use emacs or vim and we access the Win32 API directly. Heck, I only started seriously using Cygwin and the Win32 API nine months ago; three months ago I finished rewriting Cygwin/XFree86, so Win32 can't be that hard/bad :)

Harold

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Re: Trolltech: No-Charge License for Qt/Windows
by Magne Aga on Wednesday 27/Jun/2001, @11:25

I see Windows 2000 (and Windows NT) as no more than a UNIX kernel derivate with a "Windows look" (the GUI). I think Windows NT/2000 are good operating systems. However, there are dark clouds ahead.... The coming Windows XP - with registrations by Web, seems to me as a prerequisite to George Orwells future nightmare "1984". Big Brother Bill Gates is watching you!

If Qt/Windows can contribute to development of applications for Windows NT/2000, then the hegemony of Microsoft can be broken. And if MS should be very nasty guys (making the applications incompatible with future Windows incarnations, as they did with Watcom C/C++), people do have an alternative in KDE/Qt/Linux.

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