From: "Steve Whalen" <SteveWhalen001@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Qt4Ada: Qt for Ada
Date: 5 Aug 2006 12:47:06 -0700
Date: 2006-08-05T12:47:06-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1154807226.567733.111380@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 44cfcdd1$0$30105$636a55ce@news.free.fr
Yves Bailly wrote:
> ... I do believe that "commercial" /= "closed source". ...
>
While this is very true, it is also very misleading.
The best estimates I've seen show that pure GPL only "commercial"
software (with _no_ GMGPL'd library units) constitutes significantly
less than 1% of all commercial software, whether the % is measured in
copies of programs distributed, $ / Euro's spent on the software, or
the number of applications.
While I am a big supporter of open source, in the real world, GPL
without GMGPL on appropriate units _does_ mean essentially no
commercial development will be done with that GPL only compiler /
library / toolkit.
Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-05 19:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-29 10:34 Qt4Ada: Qt for Ada Yves Bailly
2006-07-29 12:35 ` Michael Bode
2006-07-29 17:03 ` Preben Randhol
2006-07-29 17:44 ` Jeffrey Creem
2006-07-29 21:50 ` Michael Bode
2006-07-29 18:17 ` Björn Persson
2006-07-29 19:11 ` Samuel Tardieu
2006-07-29 14:24 ` Marius Amado-Alves
2006-07-31 20:57 ` Yves Bailly
2006-08-01 2:08 ` Jeffrey Creem
2006-08-03 7:51 ` Rob Norris
2006-08-01 11:35 ` Philippe Bertin
2006-08-01 21:55 ` Yves Bailly
2006-08-05 19:47 ` Steve Whalen [this message]
2006-08-05 21:25 ` Michael Bode
2006-08-06 9:24 ` Georg Bauhaus
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