[Qt-interest] The argument for Qt

[Nikos Chantziaras]

Everything can die because of something else.  Cocoa can die because of 
Windows.

Btw, right now it looks more like Gnome is more likely to die because of 
KDE rather than the other way around.  But it won't.  KDE and Gnome 
aren't products.  They are projects.  I think this is what you people 
have a hard time grasping.  A product can die rather easy.  With a 
project, that's much more difficult because there's no money involved 
and success isn't crucial.  A non-successful product dies.  A 
non-successful project doesn't.

But if you need a 100% guarantee that something won't die, you won't get 
one.  Not even for a Microsoft product.


On 10/18/2011 10:10 PM, Scott Aron Bloom wrote:
> But KDE can die, because of Gnome...
>
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> Behalf Of Nikos Chantziaras
> Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 3:05 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] The argument for Qt
>
> On 10/18/2011 09:23 PM, Bob Hood wrote:
>> I have pointed to Qt's "open governance" as a move to protect it from
>> the corporate "chaos" and ensure that it remains an open, viable and
>> maintained toolkit. Again, not enough.
>>
>> Is there anything more I can site that I haven't?
>
> KDE.  Just like Gtk can't die because of Gnome, .NET can't die because
> of Windows, Cocoa can't die because of Mac OS X, Qt can't die because of
> KDE.  Nokia could even try to actively kill Qt, but nothing will work
> against it, because of KDE.
>
> It's as simple as that.
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