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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 (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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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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(...) The look and feel is one of the reasons why I rejected GTK (...) To me, compile times are a non issue. However the non-free nature of Qt leaves a bad taste in my mouth (and I not even a Open Source zealot). I can however develop a Qt based (...) (20 years ago, 25-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) When I decided to use QT for the Linux version of LDView, I already had a Windows native version, and absolutely no plans of moving the Windows version to a cross-platform toolkit. Consequently, while I also felt that having the Windows (...) (20 years ago, 25-Jan-05, to 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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(...) I just read this on /. This is great news. -Orion (20 years ago, 7-Feb-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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