From kde-devel  Mon Feb 07 18:54:48 2005
From: "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 18:54:48 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: QT for Windows released under GPL
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On Monday 07 February 2005 08:02, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> Yes, I think it will help KDE/Win32 a lot and yes, unlike Aaron, I do thi=
nk
> that it is a positive development for KDE, making it easier for a lot of
> people to gradually switch over to KDE/Linux. Apart from that it will also

well, let's certainly hope so. i would love to be wrong here, because if=20
people _don't_ switch to Open Source friendly platforms within the next few=
=20
years, IMHO we will have an extremely difficult read ahead. development=20
sustainability and standards accessibility is fundamental to open source=20
efforts, neither of which will be easily found in the coming years on=20
unfriendly, closed platforms that are themselves seeing active development.=
=20

until very recently, the open source desktop was not being treated as serio=
us=20
competition by the two incumbents. this has changed and i expect the coming=
=20
years to be rather unlike the last few.

if the win32 ports are used as migration tools, great. but if they are used=
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like cygwin often is ("make my windows machine more like UNIX, please") ...

=2D-=20
Aaron J. Seigo
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