Qt-interest Archive, March 2002
RE: Qt Licensing question - for shareware developers
Message 1 in thread
Unfortunately for those of us who live outside the US the cost of Qt is enormous making the development of free and shareware software using it completely impossible; it's 2 months pay assuming I don't eat and live on the street. Paying it off would take a year on what I earn.
Unfortunately US software producers still can't get this fact through their heads.
>>> "Fisk, Kevin" <kevinfisk@earthlink.net> 02/26/02 06:58am >>>
We'll, I'm in the advantageous position of having my company pay for it for
me. However, I would easily spend the money personally now that I know what
I would be getting. I've written a considerable number of commercial
software applications sold in retail stores and, in my opinion, Qt is a
goldmine. There are a few platform specific tweaks but, for the most part,
Qt really is a single source solution.
IMHO,
Kevin
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Message 2 in thread
huh? QT is FREE if you want to develop free software
and unless i'm pitifully mistaken, it's not a U.S. company...
On Tuesday 12 March 2002 12:21 pm, you wrote:
> Unfortunately for those of us who live outside the US the cost of Qt is
> enormous making the development of free and shareware software using it
> completely impossible; it's 2 months pay assuming I don't eat and live on
> the street. Paying it off would take a year on what I earn.
>
> Unfortunately US software producers still can't get this fact through their
> heads.
>
> >>> "Fisk, Kevin" <kevinfisk@earthlink.net> 02/26/02 06:58am >>>
>
> We'll, I'm in the advantageous position of having my company pay for it for
> me. However, I would easily spend the money personally now that I know
> what I would be getting. I've written a considerable number of commercial
> software applications sold in retail stores and, in my opinion, Qt is a
> goldmine. There are a few platform specific tweaks but, for the most part,
> Qt really is a single source solution.
>
> IMHO,
> Kevin
Message 3 in thread
Perhaps he was referring to the inflated salaries of US developers that
*can* afford Qt, rather than us Europeans who happen to pay high taxes
on almost everything, and suffer (in my case) the "Pound for Dollar
swapsie two-step." For instance, just take a look at X-box prices un
US$ and UK£ and be amazed; the UK isn't called Treasure Island for
nothing...
-- Paul.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Webster [mailto:jwebster@olemiss.edu]
> Sent: 12 March 2002 16:54
> To: ibarrett@grintek.com; qt-interest@trolltech.com
> Subject: Re: Qt Licensing question - for shareware developers
>
>
> huh? QT is FREE if you want to develop free software
>
> and unless i'm pitifully mistaken, it's not a U.S. company...
>
> On Tuesday 12 March 2002 12:21 pm, you wrote:
> > Unfortunately for those of us who live outside the US the
> cost of Qt
> > is enormous making the development of free and shareware software
> > using it completely impossible; it's 2 months pay assuming
> I don't eat
> > and live on the street. Paying it off would take a year on what I
> > earn.
> >
> > Unfortunately US software producers still can't get this
> fact through
> > their heads.
> >
> > >>> "Fisk, Kevin" <kevinfisk@earthlink.net> 02/26/02 06:58am >>>
> >
> > We'll, I'm in the advantageous position of having my
> company pay for
> > it for me. However, I would easily spend the money personally now
> > that I know what I would be getting. I've written a considerable
> > number of commercial software applications sold in retail
> stores and,
> > in my opinion, Qt is a goldmine. There are a few platform specific
> > tweaks but, for the most part, Qt really is a single source
> solution.
> >
> > IMHO,
> > Kevin
>
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