On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 11:14:05AM -0500, Matt Thoren wrote: > I saw the post for a QT/KDE developer and I have to ask what QT/KDE > gives you over simply using > vi, make, gdb, X-Motif. Because X-Motif isn't pretty =) > > I realize that someone has convinced the customer already to go down > this path, but is this is a trend? > > What about the cost of business use licensing of QT? Why tie the code > to KDE? Depends on if you're open source, or selling the software. The for open source products it's free. For closed source products it varies(1). > Why not Java? Speed, portability, and things like the GUI. > Just curious as to what other are thinking about development within > linux. Wouldn't linux go farther faster with standards that business > and industry can grasp and have some confidence in finding people who > know how to maintain their developed code? Having choices is good, and the ones that aren't so good will eventually die off. I'm quite happy with Qt, it looks great, and is pretty damned easy to deal with. > Matt. > > Matt Thoren > MTT Computer Consulting Inc. > www.mttcc.com > mthoren at mttcc.com (1) http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/pricing.html -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list