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Story: GNOME to fish in embedded Linux pond

Posted by: Anonymous (Tuesday 11 October 2005, 3:02 AM)

> As far as I can see, it is factually correct. You do
> need a paying license to develop software that is
> not GPL compatible for Qt.

That's exactly what I said, no need to argue that point. FUD does not need to be a lie. It can be a gross exaggeration of facts to scare people. In this case it's the well-known "license issue" troll as can be found a hundred times in web forums. I would just have expected better from a representative of the GNOME foundation.

Well, if they have that few merit that they have to bring up the fact that people can develop proprietary software for free with their stuff every time...

> The cost is trivial for a larger outfit of course, but it
> is not cheap for a small shop (1-5 developers or so).

Any sw shop whose business plan does not allow for an investment of about 3000$ per developer in good tools is in serious trouble. They probably spend more than that on office furniture.