Trolltech seems to be hard working to smooth out every imaginable point of criticism and to be the best Free Software team player:
- It ensures with the KDE Free Qt Foundation that Qt will be always available for Free Software developers.
- Upcoming Qt 4 gets polished with daily snapshots based on everyone's feedback.
- Qt 4 will be also available under GPL for Windows as already for Linux and MacOS.
- Trolltech sponsors developers to work on KDE and also hires from the KDE camp.
- Trolltech invests now into improving the Unix infrastructure like the X server.
- Likely with Trolltech influence additional to normal Qt documentation also the Qt book is available for free.
- It continues to support KDE and meetings like the Unix Accessiblity Forum or upcoming KDevelop conference.
- Trolltech arranges and sponsors Qt development contests with nice prizes.
- Trolltech developers participiate and help with the initial port of KDE to Qt 4 including making changes to Qt 4.
- Thanks to a new investment round announced today, Canopy and SCO got kicked out from Trolltech ownership.
And no, I won't argue about the LGPL as business plan for a company having a library as main product.
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free Qt book!?
I was totally unaware about the Qt book being a free download. At least when I was poking around the develop.kde.org website a few months ago, I never saw a link to the download. :|
But thanks, it'll be handy.
Yay for the Trolls!
"Likely with Trolltech influence additional to normal Qt documentation also the Qt book is available for free."
Heh, I ordered that book a few months before it was scheduled to be released and got it a week later (that had me confused, since amazon said it wasn't even published yet haha). I'm planning on giving the book to my friend who is intrested in learning how to program, though he prefers book form to online.
"Trolltech invests now into improving the Unix infrastructure like the X server."
I didn't know about that one, but I guess it is in Trolltech's best intrest to see Xorg become better, along with KDE (which is probably the biggest (and best) product demonstration of any product I can think of).