:BeOpen.com: Interview with Warrick Allison of Troll Tech's Qt Library
BeOpen.com: Interview with Warrick Allison of Troll Tech's Qt Library Jun 13, 2000, 12 :42 UTC (3 Talkback[s]) (5109 reads) (Other stories by Sam Williams)
"...We have a lot of people come to us and say, "I
want to write an Open Source product." When they say that,
they don't always understand what an Open Source product
is. For example, they say, "We want to write this Open
Source product and suddenly later down the line, we want to
make it commercial." In other words, what they're saying is,
"We want somebody else to write it for us, and then we'll sell
it later."
"People like that, we try to say, "Either do it properly. Do it as
Open Source or don't do it as Open Source." There are
advantages in not using Open Source. You can make more
money in the short term and spend that on developers all
over and get some sort of product. We don't steer people
either way, really."
"The purpose of us having two licenses is because we want
people who want to write Open Source software to be able
to do it with no ties to us at all. They can use version 2.1 of
Qt forever, and modify it to their heart's content. We don't
want people to be tied to us, and we don't want people to
feel like they're tied to us."
