Trolltech Released Qt 4.0 (KDE.News)

Trolltech Released Qt 4.0 (KDE.News)

Well... You know, this being free software and all that -- and mostly done by people in their
copious spare time... It's like this: when kdelibs has been ported by hackers who are better than
me, then some other hackers who are better than me, too, will start porting the koffice libs. And
when that's done, then, I, a lowly application hacker, can start porting Krita to Qt 4. Possibly I'll
take advantage of new features: that'll slow the porting effort down. No doubt, the better
hackers who work on the libraries will also want to clean up & profit from the new features,
meaning they'll spend more time than strictly necessary for the simplest kind of port, the kind of
port where you do nothing but resolve incompatibilities.

And then, when that's done, then other hackers, smaller in number, because, well, you need to
be a serious masochist to hack in your spare time on a Windows project, will have a solid base to
start porting kde4 + koffice2-for-kde4 to Windows. And then, well, then, you'll have lost a
strong argument to switch your friends over to a free operating system.

And, no, there's no way anybody can tell when that will happen; but if you are really, really, really
interested it seeing happen, you know what to do about it, don't you?