[dot] Evans Data Corp Survey reveals attitudes about KDE/Qt and SCO

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From: Nicholas Petreley <nicholas at petreley.com>
Dept: the-survey-says-dept
Date: Tuesday02/Mar/2004, @21:02

Evans Data Corp Survey reveals attitudes about KDE/Qt and SCO
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   The release is entitled Nine Out Of Ten Linux Developers Refute Sco's
Linux Lawsuit
[http://www.evansdata.com/n2/pr/releases/Linux04_01.shtml], 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 [http://www.evansdata.com/] to "give away the
store".  But since I've just written about these particular issues for
Computerworld [http://www.computerworld.com/] (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 [http://www.kdevelop.org/] and Qt Designer
[http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/designer.html] are also a huge hit
with developers, with Eclipse [http://www.eclipse.org/] 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.