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click here. RE[2]: Unless... by remenic on Sat 6th Aug 2005
10:11 UTC in reply to "RE: Unless..." Member since:  One
possible option would be for a big company like IBM to purchase
Trolltech and then redo the licensing structure to make Qt more
affordable for small ISVs and remove some of the funny Trolltech
restrictions (i.e. if you start developing a GPL app, you cannot
then dual license this app later).  Sounds like a great idea!
But you're forgetting something. Who will maintain Qt then? IBM,
if there's no profit? Or maybe the community? Well, we already
have a community based toolkit, they are called GTK+, FLTK, FOX,
wxWidgets, and the list goes on. For some wierd reason though,
they all don't match the sheer beauty of Qt (API wise).  There's
a reason why Qt is as powerful as it is today. It has a
dedicated, motivated team that works on it EVERY DAY. Unless you
start to pay volunteers to hack on it day after day (by which
they won't be voluntee