Trolltech Doing Everything Right?
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.