On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 12:23:26 +0100 PFJ <paul at all-the-johnsons.co.uk> wrote:
> > The problem is the Win32 side. I have the educational licence at work > which means I can build it happily (if they let me that is!) but the > commercial licence is what costs. As the software does not fall under > the badge of education (as far as the Trolls are concerned), > development would need the commercial version - which they're not that > willing to let out. > You mean you have asked them (Trolltech) about a free (as in beer :) commercial licence and they said no. Eh, so the PSI folks just had luck with getting 3 "free" commercial licences together with maintenance. > I'm still hopeful of coming to a compromise with my employers over > this, but it may not happen for a while. I know it's hard, software vendors are just to powerful (eg. "if you do this and this you won't get a price discount from us anymore"). > For the record though, I have got a version running moderately stable > here of the 1.1.6 branch natively under win32. Nothing is > impossible.... Good to hear, anyway if sometime there'll be someone needed for testing I have a couple of win32 boxes lying around (from win 95 OSR2 to XP Pro) even with VC++ (academic licence so I can't put out the build's) -- DeeJay1
