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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: QT for Windows released under GPL
From:       Dennie Bastiaan <morphie () unravel-music ! nl>
Date:       2005-02-08 8:24:30
Message-ID: 200502080924.30422.morphie () unravel-music ! nl
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I think that the focus of KDE shouldn't be porting it to windows. Having a KDE 
on windows is, in technical matter, very interesting, but nothing more than 
that. I don't see a lot of people switch from explorer.exe to kde.exe as 
their shell. After all, "why brake something that works for me well?". The 
number of KDE/Windows users will be dramatically low and won't be worth the 
effort. We should focus on making KDE better for linux/*nix/*bsd. 

Besides that. Hasn't it always been KDE's goal to create an alternative 
desktop for unix workstations? I really think this goal should remain like 
that. A GPL'ed Qt for windows should not change a thing about that. I am  
almost sure that the arguments for GPL'ing Qt for windows weren't "Then we 
could port KDE to windows".

The real benifits of a GPL'ed Qt are in my opinion the portability of 
academical or educational software, which till now, was mostly written in 
GTK, having the problem not being able to use C++ as the 
programming-language. GPL'ed Qt brings educational and academical portability 
to C++. And that is a good thing.

If KDE on windows wasn't one of KDE's main goals, than leave it like that and 
don't let a GPL'ed Qt change that. :)

-Dennie
 
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