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It's a shame, really, that QT didn't have a GNU loved license more early. In a better timeline, we could have skipped GTK, Gnome, and have a unified desktop U
by hyperman1 2y ago
It's a shame, really, that QT didn't have a GNU loved license more early. In a better timeline, we could have skipped GTK, Gnome, and have a unified desktop UI. Right now, Gnome is the darling of Red Hat and GNU, and we all lost for it.
- pug4 2y agoThis is 100% the truth. In an earlier draft I bemoaned Qt's licensing issues, but it didn't really fit with the rest of the article.
- masfoobar 2y agoThing is - if QT was under the GPL and GTK died out years ago... QT would not have any competition. I do wonder if QT may not be as good as it is today.. or if bad decisions were made along the way. Would a new graphics environment be created as a result? This is where the multiverse would be interesting. It is not Movies like Marvel... it is to see a universe with the above. Would QT be as good as we think?
- hyperman1 2y agoThat's certainky true. Gcc needed first egcs and later llvm to kick them back to alert at the wheel.