From kde-bindings Tue Sep 25 06:33:13 2007 From: "Gary L. Greene Jr." Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:33:13 +0000 To: kde-bindings Subject: Re: [Kde-bindings] Qyoto for companies Message-Id: <200709242333.13367.greeneg () tolharadys ! net> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-bindings&m=119070202914326 On Monday 24 September 2007 10:28:15 pm David Canar wrote: > On 9/24/07, Richard Dale wrote: > > Yes, I agree Qyoto would probably work very well on Microsoft Windows and > > Mac OS X compared with other 'cross platform toolkits'. But someone needs > > to pay us (ie Arno and myself) to make that happen. I can't see any point > > in giving away a commercial license for Qyoto for nothing in return. > > I also agree, I'm relatively new to Open Source but can't you create a > business around Qyoto and/or other bindings? I think there is a huge > business potential there. The .NET framework (specially C#) is > becoming the standard in Windows programming and I bet there are tons > of Windows Qt users that would love to transition from C++ to C# . You > could give away the Open Source bindings and charge for the > "commercial" ones (and for technical support.) Additionally sooner or > later Trolltech will need to transition to C# and at that point it > will be in Trolltech's best interest to buy Qyoto and that is how you > would make the money. (I guess it sounds so easy but it may require a > lot of time and money). > > Just my 2 cents. Uhm.... Trolltech will need to transition to C#??? Not very likely. They have a solid market with what they do. While they could use a good binding framework like Smoke, it is very unlikely that they will transition what they do from C++. Yes, they have QtJambi for Java, but their core business is C++ Widgets and the Qtopia environment. -- Gary L. Greene, Jr. Sent from: peorth.tolharadys.net 23:29:34 up 16 days, 54 min, 1 user, load average: 2.00, 1.72, 1.54 ========================================================================= Developer and Project Lead for the AltimatOS open source project Volunteer Developer for the KDE open source project See www.tolharadys.net and www.kde.org for more information ========================================================================= Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. _______________________________________________ Kde-bindings mailing list Kde-bindings@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-bindings