Re: OFFTOPIC: GTK and alternative GUIs and windowing systems in Linux

Bob Taylor (brtaylor@qtpi.lakewood.ca.us)
Wed, 11 Feb 1998 12:45:50 -0800


On Wed, 11 Feb 1998 03:58:04 -0500, Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com> writes:

> >
> >> Sorry to disagree but qt is not free. It is owned by Troll Tech. There
> >> is a *significant* difference here you have *obviously* missed. Troll
> >> Tech or whoever owns qt can cease its current distribution policy *at
> >> their discretion at any time*. Where will KDE be then?
>
> So could Linus. (The parts that are his anyway, leaving you with a quite
> useless pile'o crap kernel tree)
>

Absolutly not. You have the right to use, modify and distribute the GPL'd
code. Not so with qt.

Bob

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