Re: Trolltech: No-Charge License for Qt/Windows

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Re: Trolltech: No-Charge License for Qt/Windows
by Casteyde on Wednesday 27/Jun/2001, @20:10

Exactly the same as piracy. They already had the problem with their old licenses...

In fact, I think companies want to pay for support / development of good stuffs. Even if it's available for download. Piracy is only a matter of people, not of companies, and people take less their company benefits in account than their own wallet... (no VAT, taken from benefits, etc.).

I already think this move is great both for Qt and free software. Windows developers can now build Qt apps easily for fun, and these apps will go naturally to KDE / Linux.

The other way is simply unbeleivable : why use Konqueror on Windows, where IE is there and (still) by far better ?

When you open a door, between two rooms, people of the more crowded one will ever go to the less one... So it's all benefits for free software, and it's all benefits for Qt which becomes a de facto standard.

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