5 Dec
2003
5 Dec
'03
20:17
So how does sun explain completely omitting KDE and even its libraries in the JDS? Right off the bat they are cutting out a good 50% of the applications available for the platform. I think this is a ridiculous move. The least they could have done was include the libraries. Why would they do that?
I agree, it baffles me too.
Because of the Qt licence, surely? If they include Qt and the KDE they need to explain to corporations that if they, the corporations, want to write commercial software for that desktop, they have to hand over large piles of money to Trolltech. Given that the main argument behind the JDS is cost of ownership, that would be an embarrassment. --
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