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The release is entitled Nine Out Of Ten Linux Developers Refute Sco's Linux Lawsuit, but since I'm the one who wrote up the survey, I can tell you a bit more, although I am not allowed by Evans to "give away the store". But since I've just written about these particular issues for Computerworld (see next week's issue for the column), I can touch on them here.
KDE was once again the top choice in desktops, beating GNOME for the second survey in a row, although usage of KDE and GNOME are both increasing.
KDevelop and Qt Designer are also a huge hit with developers, with Eclipse being the only development tool that was preferred above them (well, possibly netbeans too, depending on how you look at the data).
But, as I explore in next week's Computerworld column, I was disappointed to see that free beer trumps free speech among developers. I won't go into details, because I shouldn't scoop my own column, but suffice it to say that it all boils down to the same reason Sun chose GNOME, why the available SWT is based on GTK rather than Qt (yes, I know there's an unavailable Qt-SWT), and so on.
"KDE was once again the top choice in desktops, beating GNOME for the second survey in a row, although usage of KDE and GNOME are both increasing."
Im very glad to hear this. Two desktops, one world. OK there are more than two desktops, but the world domination thing still holds. ;)
"But, as I explore in next week's Computerworld column, I was disappointed to see that free beer trumps free speech among developers."
I wouldn't phrase it as apocalyptically as you have. I would be a little more realistic, but only as realistic as RMS when he came up with the LGPL -- proprietary software is a reality, and any proprietary company (which is 99% of them) considering a OSS platform want to have the choice to build proprietary add-ons.
It all seems very silly when you look at it and consider the amount of proprietary GNOME or KDE apps are miniscule compared to the Free versions. LGPL seems to be more of an emotional comfort to big businesses than a real necessity.
Either way the results shouldnt be much of a surprise to anyone.
"any proprietary company [...] want to have the choice to build proprietary add-ons."
My only point is that while "we" dont much care for a proprietary company's choice to make closed software, *they* certainly will choose the license that gives them the most "freedom", so the choice of LGPL is pretty obvious.
A business who wants to develop proprietary software do not choose a license.
They choose a development framework/platform, looking at all facts regarding that framework.
"They choose a development framework/platform, looking at all facts regarding that framework."
Yes they certainly do. Although the LGPL will certainly be a useful (certainly where it is not feasible to pay for development in a minority of cases), and in some cases, a necessary license (getting GPL'd and proprietary software to work together) it is not something that people are going to look exclusively at.
Besides, the LGPL solves nothing. It certainly allows developers and proprietary software businesses to develop software for free, in a monetary sense, but the end-user/business/organisation is still lumped with the license that the proprietary developers choose for their software. When you look at it like this the intended use that some people have in mind for the LGPL just does not make any sense at all.
is that it was already _written_ several years ago. It however, still has not released yet.
This is of course, because SWT and Eclipse are CPL, which is unfortunately GPL incompatible.
The astonishing growth of Eclipse isn't completely unexpected.. it's :
- cross platform
- is probably the best Java IDE
I do think, however, that the brand new version of kdevelop (3.0) can make waves. It is significantly improved over the previous versions of kdevelop. Language independence is an extremely important key aspect in which kdevelop is a lot mature than Eclipse.
How can this be? I mean, GTK is GPL, and yet the existing SWT implementation is based on GTK.
GTK is not GPL.
GTK is LGPL, not GPL
> This is of course, because SWT and Eclipse are CPL, which is unfortunately GPL incompatible
I guess this is a convenient excuse.
STW/Qt would mostly be interesting on X11 systems and I don't think CPL is incompatible with the QPL.
However it doesn't sound very nice if the CPL really contains sections that prohibit using it in GPL code.
Why would IBM want to prohibit GPLed SWT applications?
Since nobody really uses SWT in any meaningful and widespread way yet, I guess this is irrelevant.
We just ditched Swing and are migrating our Java apps full speed to SWT. It's native, small and fast. Forget about Eclipse and JFace, SWT is the one!
SWT is still larger than Swing though, in all cases where Swing is already installed (which is the majority.) If SWT were distributed with Java (which would actually be a bloody good idea), it would be a different story.
There's nothing that stops a GPL application using SWT, but as far as I know the license of free Qt conflicts with the license of SWT, so SWT can't use free Qt as the peer toolkit. So it's not CPL preventing it, it's QPL.
If the CPL does not prohibit useage in a GPL project, then its IMHO clear that a GPLed SWT implementation based on Qt would be possible, even if a QPLed version wouldn't (which I highly doubt).
I guess that a licensee of Qt commerical could even release a multi licenced SWT/Qt.
I think the licence is just an excuse to avoid making Qt more popular, at least it looks like that.
This study or a similar one comes out every year and I still don't know what it's based on. Are these professional "Linux developers" or just anyone who heard about the survey and decided to hold forth?
They're professional developers from every major (and probably minor) category, ISVs, VARs, etc., and they represent everything from tiny to huge companies.
They must use or target Linux at least some of the time in order to be included in the survey.
Well, I get their surveys.
Usually there´s at least an average of two questions that can´t be answered logically, and I haven´t released a program in about 4 years. So take it with a grain of salt ;-)
hope to see juicy details in next week's computerworld.
I can see why developers are not satisfied with current debuggers. Most of them use gdb, which is incredibly powerful, but can be extremely unintuative at times. The alternatives thus far have been ddd and insight (which both have archaic interfaces), and kdbg (which does have as much flexibility as ddd and insight)
However, the brand new version of kdbg (1.9.x) is a lot better. I hope to see both it and kdevelop's internal debugger improve. I want kdbg to use kate for example.
Other KDE tools are top notch however. Qt Designer and Kdevelop is an elegent top-down solution for software development, and valgrind with kcachegrind is competitive with $3,000 offerings from Rational (er... IBM)
kdbg and kdevelop's debugger are both graphical wrappers around good old gdb.
well, duh.. that doesn't mean you can't build a interface around it that non-UNIX programmers can understand! :)
but if your using gdb you _are_ a unix programmer. GDB is actually pretty simple to use _if_ you read the documentation. Anyone who isnt capabable of that certainly isnt capable of producing good software.
But should reading the documentation really be needed? Even if you're capable, it feels kind of pointless if you just can switch to a different debugger that you don't need a handbook to use.
Don't be silly.
gdb is easy enough to learn, I suppose, but it's still easier to
1. Step through code by hitting a single function key.
2. See the current line of code in context within the source module.
3. Print out variables by clicking on them.
4. Watch a list of variables.
We have a shop full of unix programmers woring on AIX. They use dbx because it's there, but they don't like it. I personally am okay with dbx, and when I code on Linux (we're in the process of porting from AIX to Linux), I find gdb to be comparable, but even less intuitive.
Believe it or not, one of the reasons we want to switch from AIX to Linux is to get access to more up-to-date programming tools like kdbg. Kdbg may not be as powerful as gdb, but our programmers are itching for something like it. I hear it's possible to get kdbg up on an AIX box, but I don't trust it to work reliably in that environment (and our dev machine is too low-end to run X apps well anyway). I did bring up ddd on that box, and found it less useable than dbx. One of our programmers swears by IBM's idebug.
I do wish that kdbg would give you some way to get at the gdb command line. Or better yet, provide some kind of macro facility to allow you to click on a variable and pass it to a function. I make a lot of use of the dbx 'call' command (I assume gdb has something similar). For example, we have a binary 'record' format that can't be understood by simply dumping out the data. I've provided a library function to print it, which is linked into all apps. I then set up an alias command in .dbxinit to allow you to call that function to print out these records within the debugger. It's really handy. Some of these functions are even interactive (prompting the user for input). Very powerful.
While I'm venting my wishlist, it'd be really nice for kdevelop to be able to work from existing makefiles instead of insisting you use their automake (or whatever) support. We've got tons of these already set up (and I believe we may even be incompatible with automake - have our own config.h for platform dependencies). I wouldn't expect kdevelop to be able to generate the makefiles, but it'd be nice if it'd let you edit source files, rerun make and debug...
Well, you _can_ import custom projects into KDevelop 3.0 and work on a non-automake basis. It does not yet provide all of the functionality their automake manager does but it is reported to work after all.
Moreover, this probably will change with upcoming versions as a a rewrite of this part is on schedule not far from now.
Sco has no case. On the German market I am free from SCO but I think it would be very fruitful to call for a criminal investigation into the SCO group in other parts of the world. A criminal charge has to be filed against SCO as it is probably fraud. One year ago I thought SCO might have a case but the sort of media campaign made this very unlikely to me. A state attorney is an independent source that can determine whether SCo's license policy is fraud. We just have to report the offence to the police and the judicial body will care about the criminal charge. This shall be done in states where SCO sells it doubtful licenses on the market. So perhaps this may be a way to hold someone at SCO responsible.
A copyright infringement is a simple task in business and is usually silently resolved, no big deal. But the kind of communication of SCO and the baseless accusations were infringing upon almost every single business rule. In Germany(tarent vs. SCO) they were prohibited because of competition law. Accusations without proof are dirty business and have to be stopped.
As a developer (not on Linux however; at an ISV that writes custom payroll solutions, on overwhelmingly Windows-based targets), I think that nearly all things in terms of needed development platforms on Linux platforms are already *there* (cross platform development tools such as Eclipse and world class component APIs such as kparts are extremely important).
What is holding a massive amount of VARs and ISVs from Linux development isn't the lack of tools, but rather potential users. I think this is slowly changing, thanks to the positive contributions of OSS projects like KDE.
You are right on one level that if there were more users then vendors would write software.
However I would be releasing KDE utility software today regardless of the market size if there was a cross-platform tool at a reasonable price. Kylix looked like this, but it seems to have gone into limbo.
Even if there was an easy to use KDE only tool at a price that is appropriate for the free utilities that we supply to support our products, we would write them because we could.
Delphi Professional is $1000 for a complete and very productive programming environment.
Qt is ~$4000 just for a toolkit if you want cross-platform. Given that we have 0 KDE customers (all our paying Linux customers are embedded, and do thier own thing), this is just far too expensive for my market niche.
SAP or BMW mightn't blink at QT's price, and a company writing a custom payroll won't either, but for the small vendors its very steep to get tools which are not up to Windows standard for ease of use, productivity and completeness.
Note that only 5% of our website vistors (who are very technical) are using Linux desktops. This applies particularly to hardware vendors (like us)for whom the software is all cost, and no income.
A look at the windows world wll show you that a lot of its strength comes from the small shareware vendors and the like. It is impossible for them to write for KDE (except using BlackAdder).
A reasonable price QT license is urgently needed for KDE.
I suggest that someone in KDE tries to negotiate a $200-$500 professional version of KDevelop with a QT license, like what TheKompany have done for BlackAdder. This might bring some cash in for development too.
Otherwise shareware, specialist, hardware and small ISV's will continue to go with GTK,wxWindows, and Java as 95% are doing at present.
KDE will be the desktop, but none of the apps will be native.
You might ask: Who cares if commercial vendors ignore KDE, we'll just write it ourselves. However a close look will show you that most KDE applications are small and uncomplicated. There are very few deep and complicated KDE apps that work. MP3 players and IM apps are icing, not the cake.
Matlab, Gimp, Abiword, Scilab, Dataexplorer and others are GTK or Motif or Java or anything but KDE.
I think this is approaching the nub of the issue .... The long term question is, will KDE or Gnome become the predominant desktop.
The arguments about the license costs of Qt are largely irrelevant. Its free if you are non-commercial and if you are a company then it's small compared to all your other costs, especially when you factor in programmer costs vis-a-vis productivity (I believe that this both for "developed" countries like the UK, US, Australia, Japan and "developing" countries like India, those in South America) (please, no quibbles here, you get the idea...). Currently the "desktop battle" is in a state of flux, hence the majority if ISVs going Qt.
But, the crunch question is not what the ISVs prefer, it is what platforms they are going to have to write to. If Gnome is favoured by the major distributions then the ISVs will write apps on Gnome/GTK and not KDE/Qt, whether they like it or not. With SUN's "java" desktop and RedHat both favouring Gnome, ditto "UserLinux" (if it gets anywhere) and with SuSE and Ximian now owned by Novell, I think that there is a real chance that KDE will get marginalised. And, having written both Qt/KDE and GTK code, even allowing for the fact that I'm much less experienced with the latter, I see that as a real shame, because Qt/KDE is just *so* superior.
My gut feel is that TT should seriously look at changing the license for Qt, at least under X11, either to grossly reduce the license cost or even LGPL it. My fear is that if Gnome/GTK is ascedant then at a commercial level they will be squeezed out of the desktop market, in which they will loose that part of the income stream anyway. And, since most people will start GUI programming in a "desktop" environment, if they start with Gnome/Gtk then later on, as they move up the IT ladder, there is a danger that Qt will be squeezed in other areas.
"Otherwise shareware, specialist, hardware and small ISV's will continue to go with GTK,wxWindows, and Java as 95% are doing at present. KDE will be the desktop, but none of the apps will be native."
I thought you said there wasn't a market for Linux desktops? If there isn't the need for large companies, there certainly isn't the need for small ISVs and shareware developers. The vast majority of desktop applications developed are for Windows, maybe a few for Macs, and no one uses GTK, wxWindows (wxWidgets) or even Java here.
"If Gnome is favoured by the major distributions then the ISVs will write apps on Gnome/GTK and not KDE/Qt, whether they like it or not. With SUN's "java" desktop and RedHat both favouring Gnome, ditto "UserLinux" (if it gets anywhere) and with SuSE and Ximian now owned by Novell,"
Every major distribution ships KDE, and where there is a total focus on one desktop, those distributions exclusively use KDE. You will not find any distribution that exclusively ships Gnome. The JDS does, but it isn't popular, despite the hype (nor does Sun have a direction for it), and Ximian Desktop at the moment is an orphan. Red Hat's desktop strategy has been a failure, which is why they pulled it. Red Hat still ships KDE, and they have a hybrid Blue Curve desktop.
"I think that there is a real chance that KDE will get marginalised."
Sorry, but people have been making these comments for years and the situation has not changed. There always seems to be a 'real chance'.
"But, the crunch question is not what the ISVs prefer, it is what platforms they are going to have to write to."
At the moment Linux desktops are just not on ISVs' radar. Most are probably not familiar with Linux desktops beyond having heard of them. People who are not realistic about this will doom desktop Linux to failure.
"My gut feel is that TT should seriously look at changing the license for Qt, at least under X11, either to grossly reduce the license cost or even LGPL it. My fear is that if Gnome/GTK is ascedant then at a commercial level they will be squeezed out of the desktop market, in which they will loose that part of the income stream anyway. And, since most people will start GUI programming in a "desktop" environment, if they start with Gnome/Gtk then later on, as they move up the IT ladder, there is a danger that Qt will be squeezed in other areas."
I see a lot of these comments, but people forget one thing when they make them. > 95% of the world does not use Linux desktops, either KDE or Gnome. The business world is as close to 100% desktop Microsoft as you can get, so I laugh at people who talk about corporate Linux desktops and 'corporate focus'. Certain people want to talk about business desktops - there it is. If GTK and the Gnome programming technologies are inferior (certainly to Windows) then no ISV will ever contemplate using them, because they will use the extensive and good development tools available for Windows first and foremost. If there is a first-rate cross-platform alternative, like Qt, then they *might*.
We also inevitably get the VHS vs Betamax comments, where KDE is superior (admitted by practically everyone) on the Betamax side, and Gnome is VHS. I'm sorry, but Windows is VHS and everyone else is Betamax, and this happened a long time ago. If a Linux desktop is not on a par, or better, than Windows no one will touch it.
It all just shows the lack of realism that many people have concerning the future of desktop Linux and free desktops in general I'm afraid.
My prediction is that not too far in the future you will get the "goddies" for GTK/Gnome in proprietary extensions to libglib, libgtk, and libgnome and not in the LGPL-base. Why would a member of the gnome foundation give an advatage to its hated competitors?
ATK already is such an extension, although LGPL at the moment, copyrighted by Sun MS. In the Qt universe you just dont have this problem (remember X/Motif?).
Another note about a LGPL Qt. IT ALREADY EXISTS! just look in the WebCore code written by Apple (in the kwq subdir). Everyone is free to implement Qt. Its not patented like .Net, and its open source. So its not like TT is the ultimate power in the Qt universe.
"My prediction is that not too far in the future you will get the "goddies" for GTK/Gnome in proprietary extensions to libglib, libgtk, and libgnome and not in the LGPL-base. Why would a member of the gnome foundation give an advatage to its hated competitors?"
You may be right there. Hadn't thought of that.
Thank you very much for your interesting and enlightening comment. This is the best comment on the KDE vs. GNOME issue I read for a long time.
KDE will go its way, no matter what some people say. If people want KDE to go into a different direction, they should contribute instead of moaning.
> We also inevitably get the VHS vs Betamax comments, where KDE is superior (admitted by practically everyone) on the Betamax side, and Gnome is VHS. I'm sorry, but Windows is VHS and everyone else is Betamax, and this happened a long time ago. If a Linux desktop is not on a par, or better, than Windows no one will touch it.
> It all just shows the lack of realism that many people have concerning the future of desktop Linux and free desktops in general I'm afraid.
well said.
I am a sucker for this kind of thing.
VHS was better. Why? because you could see a whole movie in a VHS tape.
Sure, maybe Beta had somewhat better image quality. But not good enough to make people change tapes in the middle of a film.
Also, Beta was closed, VHS was the more open standard.
And before someone says it: No, the Betamax that was in use until recently in broadcast and production is **not** the same as old Beta.
The thing is, if you compare technologies, GNOME is VHS, and Windows is Betamax. With the exception of some things (GTK+'s layout engine, for example, Mono, potentially) GNOME is a pretty traditional platform. Even when the technologies exist (Bonobo, GNOME-VFS), very few applications actually use them. At a technical level, KDE is really the only one that matches up to Windows. You've got KParts to replace COM/OLE, you've got DCOP-scripting to replace Windows Scripting Host, you've got the broad, integrated KDE API to replace the messy but very featureful Win32 API, and you've got things like KIO that really have no comparison on Windows.
As for the Betamax vs VHS thing being a long time ago --- choosing inferior technologies is a historical curse of the computer industry. Its not just a single isolated case, but happens continually. Consider PC hardware vs Mac hardware. Windows 95 vs MacOS. D3D vs OpenGL. Go back further in time and consider the failure of NeWS, Smalltalk, Lisp, etc. I'm not saying that superior technologies never win, I'm just saying that, historically, the odds are not comforting. Now, KDE is different in a way, because KDE is open source and thus not subject to the same market considerations as these commercial products, but it's still something to be wary of. After all, those who don't understand history are doomed to repeat it, right?
"My gut feel is that TT should seriously look at changing the license for Qt, at least under X11, either to grossly reduce the license cost or even LGPL it."
When will this stupid licensing bitch go away? I am of the firm belief that no matter what Trolltech does, Qt will always be the evil toolkit. Consider its licensing history. The KDE Free Qt Foundation wasn't good enough. The Q Public license wasn't good enough. Qt being released under the GPL wasn't good enough until Trolltech got forgiveness from everyone it wronged. Upon discovery that Trolltech didn't wrong anyone, the argument suddenly turns upon the GPL itself. Then there were the occasional non-license evidence that Qt was evil incarnate: it uses C++, uses a metacompiler, didn't use the STL, etc.
> When will this stupid licensing bitch go away?
That's a good question. I saw a value of $4000 but I seem to recall $1500. At any rate whether it's single or multiple platform there's still breaks for volume licensing and funny thing, it's still selling. BTW .NET developer network is $4000 per year last I checked. I think in the US you can safely estimate $50K-$60K for software engineers. I'm sure it varies but the bottom line is that it's expensive to have a room full of them. Those costs dont' reflect probably 30%-40% additional payroll expenses and other overhead in the cost of doing business. Development cycles are at least 18 months and usually longer. So the bottom line is if that if you have a market and the toolkit saves you 1% or more in your time it's worth it. Period.
Again, the sloccount numbers from the kdewebdev module as fo today...
Totals grouped by language (dominant language first):
cpp: 136235 (85.06%)
sh: 10317 (6.44%)
ansic: 10316 (6.44%)
perl: 3295 (2.06%)
Total Physical Source Lines of Code (SLOC) = 160,163
Development Effort Estimate, Person-Years (Person-Months) = 41.29 (495.45)
(Basic COCOMO model, Person-Months = 2.4 * (KSLOC**1.05))
Schedule Estimate, Years (Months) = 2.20 (26.43)
(Basic COCOMO model, Months = 2.5 * (person-months**0.38))
Estimated Average Number of Developers (Effort/Schedule) = 18.75
Total Estimated Cost to Develop = $ 5,577,402
(average salary = $56,286/year, overhead = 2.40).
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Please credit this data as "generated using David A. Wheeler's 'SLOCCount'."
Tell me again that Qt costs too much, this time with a straight face.
> This applies particularly to hardware vendors (like us)for whom the software is all cost, and no income.
I'm asking this without knowing at all what you do, and if it would apply, just to ask. What prevents you from GPL'ing your stuff? Obviously the value isn't in the software.
The reason I ask is simply this: why should I count on a binary from someone that may very well not work a year from now on my boxes? Especially with the desktop, things are changing very fast. QT4 is on the horizon, which means binary incompatible. This is a reality, some say a feature, of FOSS development.
I think the RAD category of software was partly motivated by the thought that one could finish your project with the possibility of the vendor still being in business.
I looked at Delphi. I have used it on Windows, and it is an impressive product. The problem was that the users would have to essentially maintain a parallel universe to run the software. With no possibility of anything except at the will and mercy of Borland. Obviously I wasn't the only one who thought the same way, since Borland has essentially orphaned it.
If I want a secure, long lasting environment, I have two choices. Microsoft, or a FOSS project that has been around for a while, with an active community and a few well established commercial participants.
As for the price for a QT license, that is up to them. If they are losing market due to the high price, I suspect they'll drop it. Unfortunately, around here you have around 250 or so active developers who have contributed far more value to the project than $4000, so they may very well not have sympathy for those who are willing to ride the train, but unwilling to pay the ticket price. Think libre, not gratis.
Orphanned delphi? Come on now. There is a very strong and active community around delphi, and borland continues to see this, and continues to release this top notch IDE. They have just released version 8 which integrates with all of microsofts newfangled .net garbage because there was developer demand. I agree that it is unfortunate that Kylix seems to have gone by the way side, but lack of demand seems to be the main reason. It was technologically a good product. Desktop linux is just not as popular in the sectors where delphi is most prominent. Although, if you look at the delphi component market, you will see that many many of the independent providers have done the work to ensure their products work both with delphi and kylix.
As far as 'maintaining a parallel universe to run the product', that is also an absurd comment. As a delphi developer for the last 6 years, and building large complex applications database applications that integrate with postgresql and oracle, I can tell you that delphi applications can run on a bare bones installation of any version of windows with the appropriate database drivers (in my case ADO). Can you say the same for kde or qt apps? Can I take a qt app built with kde 3.x, and run it on ANY version of kde? Most certainly not.
I respect your comments Derek, but in this case I think you have unfortunatley spoken prior to having appropriate knowledge. Looking at delphi does not consitute knowing anything about it.
> Orphanned delphi?
Orphanned Kylix seems to be true though...
But he said orphanned delphi :(
I have heard rumors that future versions of delphi will run on both windows and linux. Not sure how much merit there is in those though. One can hope I guess :)
I meant kylix. I tried delphi and liked it. I didn't like kylix, it didn't fit well into my linux system.
Kylix is the linux version of delphi. I'm not quite sure of the differences, since it's been a while. Borland's foray into the linux marketplace will probably end up being an object lesson on how not to do it. Unfortunately.
> but lack of demand seems to be the main reason
I think the lack of a good migration path from VCL to CLX was the main reason.
Or why would Borland not be able to release their own IDE as a native application but had to use winelib?
> It was technologically a good product
I think it isn't.
If you look at programmers questions in newsgroups and webforums, developing with Kylix seems to be more difficult than Delphi programmers expected.
Additonally CLX is designed around 1980's technology, for something like rotating text one has to access the underlying Qt API or on Windows fall back to hacks like loading a vertical font.
> Can I take a qt app built with kde 3.x, and run it on ANY version of kde? Most certainly not.
Sure, Kylix apps wouldn't work on recent KDE if it weren't possible, as Kylix uses Qt2 and current KDE installations use Qt3
And how much is delphi if you want cross-platform? Or if you want just the toolkit, cross-platform?
You are comparing very different things here.
Delphi and Kylix-Pascal came together for the one price. Thats exactly what I wanted.
I don't think that Borland on Linux is dead, to me they appear to have shifted all resources to .NET so they don't let the wife walk out, while fiddling with a mistress. The offical word was that there won't be any Kylix releases this year. But who knows what they will go with when the return to Linux, probably they don't
Then it makes no sense to compare it against Qt's multiplatform price.
You could, for example, compare it to BlackAdder for Windows.
Sure, Kylix may be better. It's also more expensive. Or you could compare it to Kdevelop+Designer+Qt for X11. Then the cost is pretty much the same.
But you compared a 3-platform toolkit to a single-platform toolkit+IDE. Not comparable, really, unless there is absolutely no other alternative. But there is.
IIRC, Sun never said they chose GNOME because of the LGPL. This was way before the GPL/LGPL issue ever came up. At the time, I seem to remember the rationale being:
- Sun developers more familiar with C. Add to that the fact that KDE wouldn't compile on their C++ compilers until recently.
- Sun liked GNOME's approach of using standard technologies (eg. CORBA) instead of rolling their own (eg. DCOP). We know how the CORBA thing turned out, but the Sun deal was set up before that.
Those reasons are absolutely bogus and make no sense. The license one does though. This is why it is crucial for KDE to continue its efforts to integrate GTK into the environment.
Besides, haven't you noticed Sun aren't interested in GNOME technologies in the *least*. This is why their system is called Java Desktop System. They want their developers to use Java not inferior stuff like GTK. The fact that the native system is in fact GNOME is a dirty little secret but GNOME is just acting as a shell.
JDS being based on GNOME is certainly not a dirty little secret. Sun have been more than willing to give credit where credit is due - moreso than some of the other GNOME contributing companies, in fact - in all of their press and announcements. It is called the "Java Desktop System" for Sun branding purposes, not for any sneaky way of hiding the fact that it's based on GNOME.
You're not being objective about this. Clearly Sun is pushing this as Java. If they wanted a "branded" GNOME they could have called it Sun Desktop System not something deliberately misleading and false like JDS.
It is clear that the focus here is Java. GNOME is acting as nothing but a shell for the Java platform.


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MVdesign shot some video footage of the Ferrari FXX at the Ferrari Corse Clienti event at Spa-Francorchamps on 17 and 18 July 2012.
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Release: Preventable Hospital Admissions
The Dartmouth Atlas of Healthcare calculates preventable hospital admissions by considering the discharges for ambulatory care sensitive conditions per 1,000 medicare enrollees.
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"My name is Michael Mogy. I was born into the tool and hardware business. As a child, during my weekends and after school I worked in my fathers hardware business in South Africa. We moved to Australia in the mid 1970's. When I finished my schooling, I worked in hardware and tools.
I have always specialised in procuring the unusual, hard to get but always something that my customers "have been looking for for ages".
I travel all over the country doing the Wood-Worker Shows, agricultural field days, Vintage Car Swap meets and some craft shows. I am taking my wares to the people in remote areas as well as to other capital cities in all states. Many people know me and wait from show to show to purchase something from the "Toolologist".
Now I have teamed up with my wife Gerdi, and we have brought to you what we believe to be one of the largest ranges of box makers brassware and veneer inlays available. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)
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"A & M Wood Specialty Inc. continues to offer one of the broadest inventories in North America of wood and related wood products. For the furniture maker and architectural millwork shops we stock over 120 species of fine hardwoods and veneers, as well as a broad selection of furniture grade and specialty plywood's. All of the solids can be purchased rough or dressed to your specifications. Many European species are available, with boards up to 42 inches wide occasionally on hand.
For the instrument maker, be it string, woodwind or keyboard, we stock a variety of traditional woods and associated products. A browse through our price list or web site will give you an understanding of our varied selection. For wood turners we have many species of kiln dried wood in 3 inch and 4 inch thicknesses, a variety of partially dry half logs, numerous squares in various species and dimensions, plus a large inventory of burls ranging from quite small to several hundred pounds. " ... (See site for more information.)
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"Spaenaur is recognized throughout North America as a leading wholesale distributor for industrial fasteners, hardware components and tools. Spaenaur operates out of a 115,000 sq. foot warehouse in Kitchener, ontario and has positioned itself as a master distributor serving Distribution, MRO and Production markets.
One of Spaenaur's key strengths is its catalog. Spaenaur's catalog consists of 1,784 pages that contain over 70,000 standard and hard-to-find products and is regarded as one of the best fastener resource guides in the industry." ...
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"Harpsichord and viol - old music played on old instruments is growing in popularity. Laymen as well as professional musicians interpret music from Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque increasingly today with replicas of musical instruments from the time when the music was played.
For over twenty-five years, I offer a wide range of such historical instruments: cheap replicas for beginners as detailed copies for the layman and professional musicians and kits for customers who wish to build instrument themselves, along with accessories, literature, music and CDs .
On this website I can currently only a small part of my bid. My whole catalogue with tools, kits and accessories can I send you on request (or download in pdf format on site. (ed.) ... " (Google translation) Visit website for more information. (ed.)
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"Already the litte change in the name of the company (earlier: Marc Vogel, Bestandteile fŸr den Cembalobau) shows, that fundamental things have changed but still are the same to the 20th anniversary on 1st July 2004 of the Marc Vogel oHG - Cembaloteile.
During the last 20 years Marc Vogel has constructed a small but fine supplier company for harpsichord builders. The products are used from China to the United States, from Moskau to the Amazonas. He invested as much power in the training of his employees, to whose he handed over his company. He said:
"Years of experiences instructed me to integrate young people to my work in time so that a continuoues developement of the firm is possible. I would like to use this anniversary to give the firm a more extensive basis. So the firm "Marc Vogel - Bestandteile fŸr den Cembalobau" becomes the general partnership "Marc Vogel oHG - Cembaloteile" through the entering of the employees Sabrina Meisel, Waldemar Zimmermann and Michael Scheer. I will retire from the daily business because of age and health, but I will still be at the firm's disposal as an adviser. I would like to thank you for the good cooperation and ask you to convert your trust to the new firm owners.Ó ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)
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At Ars Antiqva you will find all related to early music: instruments (baroque guitar, vihuela, theorbo, laud, flute, viola da gamba, baroque bows, harpsichord etc.) You will find as well as new and used instruments for sale as well as manuscript. Visit website for more information. (ed.)
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"The Renaissance Workshop Company Ltd. (RWC) is the world's largest specialist manufacturer of early music instruments, all based on existing originals or relevant iconography and are handmade by a small team of dedicated craftsmen who have many years experience.
RWC designs and manufacture, for historical performance, a wide range of faithful reproductions of mediaeval, renaissance and baroque musical instruments from keyboards (clavichords, harpsichords, spinets…) and stringed instruments (fiddles, lutes, viols, hurdy-gurdies, psalteries…) to windcaps (crumhorns, cornamusen, shawms...)
RWC is not only an Early Music workshop making musical Instruments to the highest standards, the company has saved many rare and some relatively unknown instruments from extinction.
What makes the Renaissance Workshop Company Ltd. unique however is that the same range of Early Music instruments are offered to customers either complete or in kit form for home assembly. Each kit provides all the parts for you to build the instrument and has been designed for ease of assembly. Most do not assume any prior knowledge or experience of instrument making. The company even organises kit-building courses, designed to be as much fun as they are instructive
Although most of the kits are sold to aficionados, the company supplies to connoisseurs of mediaeval, renaissance and baroque music throughout the world, and has established a strong export base to Europe, Japan and the United States. RWC has really contributed to the take off of the sales of early music instruments world-wide. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)
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"The purchase, sale or simple protection of furniture or works of art is often complex due to problems in establishing their authenticity and value. A specialised expert alone is able to determine the authenticity and value of a given item, and there are a number of reasons for calling on his services to ensure a fair settlement in cases of inheritance, sharing, donations and divorce following a loss (fire or theft), to provide an accurate valuation of the lost objects and to prepare a dossier for presentation of the client's claim to the insurer. .."
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"We are pleased to welcome you in the world of Abete Fiemme.
These pages tell the story of the "tree of music", an extraordinary tree which grows in the forests of the Fiemme Valley (Italy).
From this wood, unique in the world for its resonant characteristics, we obtain soundboards for valuable musical instruments.
A. Stradivari personally chose the spruces in the Fiemme Valley to make his fascinating violins. Nowadays the "heart" of some of the most famous pianos in the world, is a "Ciresa soundboard "." ... (See site for more information.)
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"Handmade reproduction of parchment roses for harpsichords and baroque guitars after originals and iconographical sources, or after patterns by request. ...
... In the summers 1982,'83 and'85 I participated in seminars held by ancient violin-making Gerhard Söhne in the courses of Ancient Music Pamparato (Cuneo). After the diploma of Violin Making in Vicenza I started the business of building maker Renaissance lutes, viola da gamba Renaissance and Baroque, ribeche and mandore medieval, and even occasionally making rosette parchment for cymbals and Baroque guitars, upon request. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)
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The Rivolta Family has been cutting and dealing with wood for a Century. We are the fourth generation in our family business. We buy the best and most precious woods from all continents. We choose and cut the logs, and then the timber is dried with great care in our sawmill in Desio. The quality and the variety of woods that we deal with allow us to select the most suitable material. Our great-grandfather began by selling carpentry wood. Tonewood is now our main activity; although we still supply sawn sizes for restoration, turnery, and handicraft objects. ... (See site for more information.)
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"Net Instruments musical instruments is a global database of musical instruments for sale. Join free now with 3 musical instrument slots or get a monthly associate subscription!
Musical instruments are from the community of 75,000+ registered musicians. Musical instruments are viewed by 250,000 visitors every month. " Early music instruments sections. Visit website for more information. (ed.)
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" ... In 1986 an offer to share a workshop with an antique restorer friend started me thinking about using some of my enthusiasm and interest in wood to real benefit. I restored musical instruments for a time - but I soon decided I wanted to actually make something.
I was fascinated by boxes, and still am. Isn't everyone? ... boxes contain things and, more importantly, HIDE things from view. Human nature being what it is one naturally wants to know what is inside a closed box - so a natural reflex is to open it, and if it's locked you really want to open it. What is it that is being so carefully protected, or hidden - what can it be that justifies this special treatment, particularly if it is an elaborate and valuable box.
I wanted to create these 'precious' and fascinating items -the 'jewellery' of the cabinet makers art - and this also suited the logistics of being in a small, shared workshop surrounded by chests of drawers, tables, chairs and partner's desks. Actually I had made my first box around the time I moved into the workshop [click here] and this was so well received that I decided to phase out the musical instrument work to concentrate on the box making. Things just took off from there and I have been making boxes ever since. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)
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"Welcome to Early Music Connect! We supply a selection of the finest early musical instruments and gut strings at the most competitive prices - backed up with great service and a passion for music! Why not get in touch and see what we can do for you - we welcome enquiries, even at weekends and evenings. With Early Music Connect, that longed-for instrument is now within reach..."
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"Goodfellow was established in the City of London in 1946. The Company now has subsidiary operations in France, Germany, North America and a representative office in China, with the Group's research laboratories, workshop facilities & central administration located in Huntingdon, England. .."
Suppliers of PEEK monofilament as replacement for boar's bristle (hair) used for jack springs. Use of 0.45mm size has been suggested but proper measurement of the bristle being replaced should be considered.
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"GPS - the sole supplier of Ivory Alternative Col. 849/TM, a specially cast polyester with the full and varied characteristics of real ivory. Perfect for machining, drilling, threading, boring and specialised turning.
As well as Ivory, we supply an extensive range of alternative materials:
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" Large and diverse stock of whole, sheet and cut material in bone, horn and antler. Experienced in supply of whole, dried horn where size, tone and colours are of significant importance. Cow, Ox, buffalo, sheep and goat horn, Buffalo and camel bone in whole and sheet (peroxide treated) formats. Suppliers of varied natural materials to the antiques industry. Also Nickel alloy, Brass and Sterling Silver bagpipe mounts and ferrules stocked (specialist trade - see sister site http://www.bagpipeferrules.com)"
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"Our cases are made from strong, lightweight plywood,which is covered outside with leathercloth. The inside is lined in plush or velvet. The cases are well padded and include storage ompartments and/or bow provisions where necessary. Top quality fittings are used throughout, including nickel plated hardware and solid leather handles. Various exterior and interior colour schemes are available."
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"STRINGS: Original types of strings and string sets for all Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque and Classical instruments
INSTRUMENTS: Lutes, viols, citterns (plus bandora and orpharion), early guitars, rebecs, etc.
VARNISHING MATERIALS: Pine-resin varnishes (clear and coloured), Rosin Oils, Stand Oil, etc.
SCHOLARLY RESEARCH into the History and Technology of: Strings, instruments, performance (including standards of pitch and tempo), etc. ... "
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The Early Music Shop was formed in 1968 at a time when early music, as we now know it, was in its infancy. We were encouraged in our early years by the late David Munrow and many of his pioneering contemporaries, and it's almost true to say that The Early Music Shop is as old as the early music revival itself. It has certainly contributed to the continuing interest there has been in the field, making early music and its performance on original instruments accessible to a growing number of people.
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"All sorts of old rare and unusual musical instruments, bought and sold. Where may also be had a variety of old and new books, music and tutors, oil paintings, watercolours, engravings and photographs of musical interest."
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"We supply antique tools and pre-owned woodworking tools from our retail store where we offer the largest selection of used and antique tools in Europe - over 1500 wood carving tools are always in stock.
We also offer a full mailorder service world-wide.
We are also the leading auction house specialising in antique wood working tools.
We host three auctions of antique and useable tools each year in Needham Market, Suffolk, England. Two are domestic auctions containing lots of mixed quality, ranging from tools in "as found" condition, to items of collectable quality. There is a 'Bygones' section containing items of interest to both the curious amateur or the professional bidder. …"
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"We cover natural keys, according to the tradition of French Organ and Harpsichord makers, with prime quality free-range Salers and Charolais beef bone from the Burgundy and Auvergne regions.
This bone is washed and quarter-sawn to ensure the best close-grained texture and durability. The bone covering feels very similar to ivory and it absorbs the natural moisture of the finger tips, thus avoiding the slippery sensation of plastic. Furthermore, these bone coverings always remain white and allow the finest polished and buffed surface. .."
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"The Boulder Early Music Shop is your source for Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque music, instruments, and accessories. We carry a full line of
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Corinthian columns, wood panels carved by Italian artisans and gas lights overhead. Belfast's Crown Bar is the ultimate in Victorian style
Imagine moulded ceilings, stained-glass snugs (private seating areas) guarded by lions and gryphons. Then add brocade, feathered motifs, fleur-de-lys and rich colours. Now toss in some liquor. The result? The glorious Crown Liquor Saloon in Belfast, County Antrim – one of the last Victorian gin palaces on the island.
Built in 1826, the Crown recalls a lavish baroque style that you don't normally see in bars. It's probably the most beautiful pub you'll ever see.
Try get here early and grab a snug – private areas that were created for people who preferred to drink without being seen. Each one is furnished with intricate handcrafted Italian paneling and carving, soft leather seating and gun metal plates that used to be used for striking matches – each one boasts its own private door, too.
And that button? Well, that's an antique bell system, which, according to the owners, "alerts the staff to you liquid needs".
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In her own words: living with kidney cancer
Paula is a 52-year-old "professional volunteer" and advocate for those with kidney cancer. She lives in New York and was Assistant to the President of Pace University for 17 years before learning she had cancer 9 years ago.
What was your first sign that something was wrong? What symptoms did you experience?
I had none of the usual symptoms: lower back pain, weight loss, blood in the urine. At 43, I was very active between working, biking, and traveling. In the summer before my diagnosis in January 1994, I went to a water park and was fearless, riding every ride possible. When I experienced aches and pains afterwards, I thought nothing of it. At one point, I went to a doctor and after an x-ray I was told I had "bruised ribs." For several months, I continued to be active and still had occasional aches and pains. I was eventually diagnosed with Stage III kidney cancer.
What was the diagnosis experience like?
The diagnosis was sudden and unbelievable, since the minor aches and pains I had been experiencing were easily dismissed because of my active lifestyle. But once found, a competent team of doctors, including my primary physician, an oncologist, and an urologist were assembled to quickly begin a treatment plan.
What was your initial and then longer-term reaction to the diagnosis?
The diagnosis was overwhelming. I had some personal experience with cancer, as my mother was a breast cancer survivor. But no one in my family had kidney cancer and I didn't fit the usual profile: older, white men who are smokers. I am a younger, African-American, nonsmoking woman. So, initially I wondered where the cancer came from. But I quickly began to gather as much information as I could to make rational decisions. Although, I definitely made some emotional decisions as well, such as the "gut feeling" not to participate in a John's Hopkins trial that would require me to leave NY, where my supportive friends and family were, for 3 months.
How is kidney cancer treated?
Kidney cancer is generally treated first with a radical nephrectomy, which is removal of the kidney, surrounding glands and blood vessels, and a portion of the ureter leading to the bladder. Chemotherapy is usually ineffective against kidney cancer, so instead immunotherapy (Interleukin-2) is administered either in high doses (in the hospital) or low doses. Over the course of 1 year, I took cycles of low dose IL-2. Cycles were given 4 times per week for 4 weeks, with 2 weeks off between cycles. Unfortunately, about 18 months after my initial diagnosis (a typical time frame for recurrence), they found a malignant lymph node in my neck, which was surgically removed. I then chose to follow up with a combination of medications administered 3 times per week for 11 months, which included a chemotherapeutic agent—another emotional decision I made despite advice to the contrary. The treatment was stopped because I had severe pain, which turned out to be an inoperable mass encasing the abdominal aorta. To this day, I don't know what the mass was, but over the years, it has amazingly been shrinking. Is the cancer gone? I don't know. I have "stable disease," so I'm getting on with my life.
Did you have to make any lifestyle or dietary changes in response to kidney cancer?
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As everyone was watching a large body called 2012 DA14, which is heading for a close approach to Earth today, a far smaller body exploded in a spectacular fireball over Russia's Ural region. Although it's not yet clear whether any pieces of the meteor survived to land on Earth, the large booms caused by its disintegration shattered glass, resulting in hundreds of injuries, though no reported deaths.
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Young Mother in the Grotto
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Auguste Rodin, French, 1840 - 1917. Carved by Jean Escoula, French, 1851 - 1911.
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27 7/8 x 25 5/8 x 14 9/16 inches (70.8 x 65.1 x 37 cm)Curatorial Department:
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Gift of Brook J. Lenfest, 2010
Made in France, Europe
Modeled 1885; carved 1891Medium:
27 7/8 x 25 5/8 x 14 9/16 inches (70.8 x 65.1 x 37 cm)Curatorial Department:
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Auguste Rodin's marble Young Mother in a Grotto is related to a mother-child pair found on the left panel of the Gates of Hell. The woman, crouching in a grotto and shielding her child from the elements, seems to embody maternal love and protection. The contrasting textures of the smooth figures against the rough grotto highlight the way the human forms magically emerge from the living stone in a deeply primordial way, something that Rodin learned from Michelangelo. The theme of maternal love is much less prevalent in Rodin's work than love between man and woman. A similar work was titled both Young Mother and Woman and Love, and Rodin gave many of his drawings on the theme mythological titles. Is the baby on her knee her own child, or the personification of love, Eros?
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