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Old 30th October 2008
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Originally Posted by rex View Post
I was reading a discussion on qt vs gtk. and someone raise the question what will happen to KDE once trolltech is sold or bankrupted, and the reply he got was, in case of sold out or bankruptcy the latest version of qt will be released under BSD license. But how is that going to help KDE. Who is going to maintain qt then? KDE folks are responsible for maintaining and developing KDE not qt.
Scenarios:
a) Some Big fish will buy it, google, sun.... and will continue to develop it

b) someone will invent OpenQT

c) KDE can be rewritten to use GTK (very, very, very hard, but possible)

d) KDE will die, and there will be no more debates regarding Gnome vs KDE
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