On 23/06/07, Stefan Teleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Although neither a Sun Microsystems employee, nor a designated inclusion decisions, Trolltech license interpretations, and in-depth technical details about KDE, and QT, apparently on behalf of Sun Microsystems, the Indiana Project, and the community at large.
All I stated was a relatively logical conclusion regarding the inclusion of a desktop environment. Since the OpenSolaris.org community invests the majority of its resources (indirectly through Sun) in GNOME, it makes no sense from a resource perspective to use a desktop other than GNOME. In addition, GNOME has the added advantage of not having to deal with the current C++ ABI issues we face (generally speaking). As far as Qt. There is no license to interpret. If you wish to produce a proprietary (commercial or not) well-integrated application for KDE, you must pay the "Trolltech tax." No other major OS platform (such as Windows or OS X) *requires* the payment of royalties for something as basic as a GUI/Platform SDK. It is possible to development completely freely for fully-integrated applications within the GNOME, XFCE, OS X, and Windows environments (including many others). I never claimed it was my decision to make despite implications to the contrary. I merely pointed out a logistical inadequacy in the proposal given. I have also never claimed to be a representative of any community here. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
