From kde-core-devel  Wed Jan 05 20:51:51 2005
From: George Staikos <staikos () kde ! org>
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 20:51:51 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: KIO->GnomeVFS bridge started (looking for a Common-VFS)
Message-Id: <200501051551.51395.staikos () kde ! org>
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On Wednesday 05 January 2005 15:46, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> Yes, LGPL QtCore would be so cool, it would give a free (even for
> commercial use) infrastructure library, so any kind of infrastructure for
> the unix desktop could use it without any licensing issues. And I even
> think it wouldn't take paying customers away from Trolltech. I don't think
> many companies buy Qt just to have portable threads and strings. These are
> things which can also be developped in-house in a reasonable time.

  And indeed they are.  I have done this for clients in the past, even those 
using Qt (due to the GUI code mixed in).  STL was a nightmare and completely 
unusable most of the time.  (and I still regret the places where I did use 
it)

-- 
George Staikos
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