Re: TrollTech releases QT for Mac under GPL
Re: TrollTech releases QT for Mac under GPL
- Subject: Re: TrollTech releases QT for Mac under GPL
- From: Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 04:11:02 +0200
Am Sonntag, 22.06.03 um 03:02 Uhr schrieb Don Yacktman:
On Saturday, June 21, 2003, at 06:11 PM, Greg Weston wrote:
An explanation of exactly how it's in Apple's best interests to give
Windows developers a better toolkit when there's absolutely no
promise that Mac builds would arise. And you can't say "but why
wouldn't they because the Mac builds would be 'free'" because:
a) We've all seen people turn down good ideas for bad reasons.
Yeah, they'd pretty much have to set up a runtime licensing policy
that requires that a Mac version be produced. Like "if you use Cocoa
on Windows, part of the cost of doing so is that you are required to
produce a Macintosh build as well." Or even making it so that the
toolset just always creates a Mac version of the app when you click
build, not even offering the way of building for Windows only.
In fact, if they wanted YB to be a profit center (which is probably
the only way you could convince them to do it at all) then I could see
a stipulation like this: you have to release a Mac product first, and
have it be exclusive to the Mac for x number of months and/or you have
to pay a per copy runtime fee as a royalty on every copy of your app,
but of course, no royalty fee for copies of the Mac version so that
the Mac version is cheaper (or else offers a better profit margin).
That would unfortunately probably be more than enough to discourage
use of Cocoa by typical Windows developers, or in other words,
everyone but the Mac diehards that are already using it. (Of course,
the diehards wouldn't mind, because just being able to use Cocoa at
all to build apps that can be sold in the Windows market would make a
lot of us very happy.) But only having Mac people use it, instead of
a broader developer base, is a shame, because if you could create a
situation where the latest software technology always came out first
on a Mac and always costs less on the Mac, that would be a nice way to
shift public perception of the value of using the platform... (right
now that's still somewhat true, even if people tend to ignore it, but
if it were indisputably true for a lot more stuff, wouldn't that be
nice!)
Well, it's a fun thought exercise, but I seriously doubt it's ever
going to happen.
To complicated. Simply hand out only a runtime environment for Windows
and require them to develop on a Macintosh.
--
Later,
Don Yacktman
email@hidden
greetings, Lars
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