Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: Why Free Software won't work in the mainstream

Hi,

On 8/31/06, Mitul Limbani mitul@enterux.com wrote:

Quoting Siddhesh Poyarekar siddhesh.poyarekar@gmail.com:

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as a car, stereo, etc. Businesses thriving on FOSS (Trolltech, RH, Suse, Novell, etc) essentially give away the product for free and

Trolltech ==> charges Fee for using their QT library in your code.

This is partly correct. Trolltech charges fee only if you sell your code ( that uses Qt ) and not if you give away your code free. Which is pretty ok, imho. Because they need run a company and in real world company need revenue to pay its employees. So basically they charge only if you try to make money using their product and not otherwise which somehow looks fair enough to me.

Cheers!

Pradeepto