Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 22, 2005 01:20 AM
Gosh, you're so paranoid I suspect you also think Elvis was abducted by aliens sent by the Illuminati in order to hide the murderer of Kennedy...
Have you ever had any shred of an inkling of a hint that the people working on Ubuntu have had any direct contact with Trolltech? Let alone had been directed by, paid by or instructed by Trolltech?
Have you got any idea of how the GPL works? It is impossible to lock software in using a GPL'ed library, because if the maker of that library starts committing iniquities, the users of the library can take the library for a run themselves. And don't tell me that Qt would die without Trolltech, development would just slow down to the speed of Redhat-sponsored Gtk. Any fear of a Qt-lock-in is plain silly. Unless you perhaps want to make closed-source software, in which case you deserve all the lock-in that's coming your way because you'd be a locker-in yourself.
Finally, are you the same less-than-sane person who made noise about Qt lock-in in reaction to the KDevelop article?
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Re:I chose Ubuntu because it is Gnome-based
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 22, 2005 01:20 AMHave you ever had any shred of an inkling of a hint that the people working on Ubuntu have had any direct contact with Trolltech? Let alone had been directed by, paid by or instructed by Trolltech?
Have you got any idea of how the GPL works? It is impossible to lock software in using a GPL'ed library, because if the maker of that library starts committing iniquities, the users of the library can take the library for a run themselves. And don't tell me that Qt would die without Trolltech, development would just slow down to the speed of Redhat-sponsored Gtk. Any fear of a Qt-lock-in is plain silly. Unless you perhaps want to make closed-source software, in which case you deserve all the lock-in that's coming your way because you'd be a locker-in yourself.
Finally, are you the same less-than-sane person who made noise about Qt lock-in in reaction to the KDevelop article?
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