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Well I'm kind of of pissed.
** begin rant **
Curious to find an acceptible substitute for Java, I was looking into cross
platform GUI toolkits. GTK+ came to mind but alas no Mac support for the latest
version. Then I thought of Qt. I visited the Qt website, read over their
overview and got excited. Finally I found what I wanted so I clicked the
download link and was whisk to the download page only to discover that the
Windows version of the toolkit is not available under a open source licence but
the X11 and Mac OS X versions are. They list no justification for this anywhere
on their website. I suspect this this is open source snobbery at it's finest:
"let's punish the Windows users by making them pay $1000+ to develop using our
produst but give the Linux users a free ride"
** end rant **
Luckly I just ordered a Mac mini so I'll be able to try my hand but I still
won't be able to compile anything I create on Windows unless I'm willing to fork
over some cash (which I am not).
FUT to o-t.geek
-Orion
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| (...) 100% behind you on your rant. I refuse to use Qt for any development because of their licensing policy on it (even though I'm on Linux and wouldn't have to pay to use it). Trolltech's licensing policy reeks of being nothing other than a feeble (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jan-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| Personally I don't think using GTK under Windows is a good idea. I've worked with it before and even released an application that used it and you won't believe the amount of people that have trouble using a Windows application with controls that (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Orion: In my quest for 3D cross platform independence, I decided to give GLUT a try. GLUT is a cross-platform window toolkit that Mark J. KilGard (who was at SGI at the time) wrote to demonstrate OpenGL programming. It is supposed to run on (...) (20 years ago, 25-Jan-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| It looks like QT 4 will extend the GPL license to the Windows version. See here: (URL) sent this cad.dev, because this change could actually be useful to the developers.) --Travis Cobbs (20 years ago, 7-Feb-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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