This is a non-sensical thread that refuses to die on the XL or Beowulf list... it's just interesting to note s/o at RH is also talking with Troll.
Marcelo
--- Begin Message ---Oleg, I am actively talking to the Troll Tech folks and others about all these issues. I'll keep you posted on any progress we make. Cheers, Bob. > > I'm not sure that this is the forum for debating KDE and Qt library > > licensing issues - does Gnome or KDE run on Extreme Linux machines? ;-) > > > > But it should be noted that the Qt libraries are not -yet- open source. > > Troll Tech have announced that they will be changing the license on their > > next release of the Qt libraries (2.0) due out in early '99. > > Bob, > > Although this is off topic (I deleted the lists from the header), I think > these "political" arguments are resulting in the fragmentation of the > Linux market, much like UNIX got fragmented. > > By the time GNOME was releasing an alpha version, KDE was a usable beta. > Now KDE is a full release, there are hundreds of applications written that > use KDE, and GNOME is still pretty much vaporware as far as ordinary users > are concerned. Only now GNOME folks are talking about feature freeze and > 1.0 release. That seems like 6 months behind KDE. > > Trolls announced they will be releaseing the next version of Qt under an > OSS compliant license. Where does it take GTK ? Will we have two different > competing GUI toolkits or what ? What will Red Hat distribute, Gnome or > KDE, 1 year from now ? > > > Oleg Dulin, > Clarkson University, Computer Engineering > http://www.clarkson.edu/~dulino > Red Hat Software, Inc.----------------------------------------- Phone 919-547-0012 x227 Fax 919-547-0024 P.O. Box 13588 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 http://www.redhat.com
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