> > I strongly doubt that KDE has the momentum to succeed. It's based on > > Qt, which is a proprietary standard. Granted the implementation is > > delivered 'free for noncommercial use', but I don't see that as a > > significant difference. It's still a proprietary toolkit, which will > > keep the GNU crowd disinterested, as well as making it inappropriate > > for Debian proper. > > In contrast to motif Qt is fully C++ OO. > Qt comes with source. Any gpled sw can be distributed with soure or binary > of Qt. > Just building proprietary sw without source.. cost money. > So it is really free and can be well used for gpled sw.
My personal goals include developing GPL'd freeware as well as commercial software. So I don't think that I will be using KDE or Qt (even though they might be very nice). Cheers, - Jim -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
