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/*!
\page aboutntqt.html
\title About Qt
Qt is a multiplatform C++ GUI toolkit created and maintained by\link
troll.html Trolltech\endlink. It provides application developers with
all the functionality needed to build applications with
state-of-the-art graphical user interfaces. TQt is fully
object-oriented, easily extensible, and allows true component
programming. Read the \link
http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/whitepaper.html
Whitepaper\endlink for a comprehensive technical overview.
Since its commercial introduction in early 1996, TQt has formed the
basis of many thousands of successful applications worldwide. TQt is
also the basis of the popular \link http://www.kde.org/ KDE \endlink
Linux desktop environment, a standard component of all major Linux
distributions. See our \link http://www.trolltech.com/success/
Customer Success Stories\endlink for some examples of commercial Qt
development.
Qt is supported on the following platforms:
\list
\i <b>MS/Windows</b> -- 95, 98, NT 4.0, ME, 2000, and XP
\i <b>Unix/X11</b> -- Linux, Sun Solaris, HP-UX, Compaq Tru64 UNIX,
IBM AIX, SGI IRIX and a wide range of others
\i <b>Macintosh</b> -- Mac OS X
\i <b>Embedded</b> -- Linux platforms with framebuffer support.
\endlist
Qt is released in different editions:
\list
\i The \link commercialeditions.html <b>TQt Enterprise
Edition\endlink</b> and the \link commercialeditions.html <b>Qt
Professional Edition\endlink</b> provide for commercial software
development. They permit traditional commercial software distribution
and include free upgrades and Technical Support. For the latest
prices, see the Trolltech web site, \link
http://www.trolltech.com/pricing.html Pricing and Availability\endlink
page, or contact \link mailto:sales@trolltech.com
sales@trolltech.com\endlink. The Enterprise Edition offers additional
\link modules.html modules \endlink compared to the Professional
Edition.
\endlist
\list
\i The \link opensourceedition.html <b>TQt Open Source Edition\endlink</b> is
available for Unix/X11, Macintosh and Embedded Linux. The Open Source Edition
is for the development of \e {Free and Open
Source software} only. It is provided free of charge under the terms
of both the \link license.html Q Public License\endlink and the \link
gpl.html GNU General Public License\endlink.
\endlist
*/