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It was foolish of KDE to use commercial product as a base for their free desktop. They should've use wxUniversal (the self drawing version of wxWidgets). Now,
by thePunisher 6y ago
It was foolish of KDE to use commercial product as a base for their free desktop. They should've use wxUniversal (the self drawing version of wxWidgets).
Now, the only option they have left is to fork QT, which would put enormous pressure on them since it would require a lot of effort to maintain.
- syockit 6y agoHindsight is 20/20. Back when KDE was being developed, Trolltech offered free software license claiming "if you create free software; Qt is backed up by a professional organization which won't disappear tomorrow.". On the other hand, wxWindows (now wxWidgets), although having started much earlier in 1992, only had its first alpha in 1997, while KDE was already in development (starting in 1996), preparing for its first beta release. Surely that would be a good time to consider the alternative, you'd say, but why bother, since Qt also had a free license and had a whole company backing it, while wxWindows didn't. Without the foresight, who would you have placed your bet on?