Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 06, 2004 09:08 PM
Nonsense. Sun also contributed to Mozilla, which is written in C++.
Mozilla was perceived as the popular browser - so they supported it.
If Sun had selected KDE, then Sun's desktop would be based on the Qt library, and the Qt Object Model.
Yer. And?
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.
Companies do deals, cross-license etc. all the time. This situation would be more acceptable to most corporations. This does not affect KDE because it is free software.
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.
Qt is different from KDE - Qt is just the base toolkit used. Sun would contribute to KDE as with any other community project and KDE technology belongs to KDE, not Trolltech. KDE is up and running under Solaris - why would they need to talk to Trolltech?
Does that sound like a situation that would be acceptable to Sun?
The situation I have just described would be more acceptable to most corporates, but I suppose Microsoft's rivals continue to buy the FUD.
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Re:Pragmatic reasons
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 06, 2004 09:08 PMMozilla was perceived as the popular browser - so they supported it.
If Sun had selected KDE, then Sun's desktop would be based on the Qt library, and the Qt Object Model.
Yer. And?
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.
Companies do deals, cross-license etc. all the time. This situation would be more acceptable to most corporations. This does not affect KDE because it is free software.
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.
Qt is different from KDE - Qt is just the base toolkit used. Sun would contribute to KDE as with any other community project and KDE technology belongs to KDE, not Trolltech. KDE is up and running under Solaris - why would they need to talk to Trolltech?
Does that sound like a situation that would be acceptable to Sun?
The situation I have just described would be more acceptable to most corporates, but I suppose Microsoft's rivals continue to buy the FUD.
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