On Sun, 24 Nov 1996, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > like Pandora's box. Programs relying on the old Qt will function as
> > always. Free programs relying on the new, unreleased, pay-for-it Qt...
> > well, there just won't be many of those around.
>
> If there were no bugs in that "free" version.
I already said, irrelevant.
> > As for not being able modify Qt, not really. Qt supports inheritance, so
> > can be modified at a higher abstraction. Your argument is based on FUD.
> > Meanwhile the freeware community diddles around with various uncompleted
> > toolkits.
>
> Again, this assumes the parent classes are bug free. But remember that
Why.
> And as far as I am concerned there is no point in using Qt for developping
> kde when there are other free alternatives around, such as V.
At last, an argument that might actually have substance.
> > <flame>
> > Where is the plethora of excellent concepts and toolkits? Seems the big
> > commercial OSes get those (MacOS, Windows, OS/2 -- not neglecting NeXT,
> > it just didn't get to the big status). So, what went wrong?
> > </flame>
>
> There is a plethora of toolkits; concepts? Don't know.
The word excellent is missing from your sentence.
> I don't mind individual programs such as nethack using Qt. What I
> dislike is people putting in a lot of time and effort developping
> things like kde on top of a non-free toolkit like Qt when there are
> viable free alternatives around.
Your opinion. Personally, I'd like KDE to be as library independent as
possible, however, not much chance of that (at least until somebody
assembles a wrapper library).
> Debian GNU/Linux 1.1 is out! { http://www.debian.org/ }
Look, I'm not trying to get Qt included in Debian, Debian is the work of
its developers. If it does not contain something, that something can
be added later by the sysadmin.
--
William Burrow -- Fredericton Area Network, New Brunswick, Canada
Copyright 1996 William Burrow
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