Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 06, 2004 06:30 AM
> The reasons for Sun using Gnome probably have more to do with the fact that the technical people at Sun are more comfortable with C and object-oriented C rather than C++ or anything else the rest of the world uses.
Nonsense. Sun also contributed to Mozilla, which is written in C++.
Sun had to choose Gnome because of Qt's GPL+proprietary licensing strategy.
If Sun had selected KDE, then Sun's desktop would be based on the Qt library, and the Qt Object Model.
And in that case, Sun would have had to tell developers that, in order to write proprietary retail applications for Sun's Java Desktop, for Linux or Solaris, they would have to pay over $1000 (per developer) to another company, namely, Trolltech.
And Sun would also have to say to those developers that Sun is not in control of their desktop's development APIs or Object Model. Again, those developers would have to talk to Trolltech in order to develop for the Solaris desktop.
Does that sound like a situation that would be acceptable to Sun?
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Re:Pragmatic reasons
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 06, 2004 06:30 AMNonsense. Sun also contributed to Mozilla, which is written in C++.
Sun had to choose Gnome because of Qt's GPL+proprietary licensing strategy.
If Sun had selected KDE, then Sun's desktop would be based on the Qt library, and the Qt Object Model.
And in that case, Sun would have had to tell developers that, in order to write proprietary retail applications for Sun's Java Desktop, for Linux or Solaris, they would have to pay over $1000 (per developer) to another company, namely, Trolltech.
And Sun would also have to say to those developers that Sun is not in control of their desktop's development APIs or Object Model. Again, those developers would have to talk to Trolltech in order to develop for the Solaris desktop.
Does that sound like a situation that would be acceptable to Sun?
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