[maemo-developers] [PMX:#] Re: [maemo-developers] Qt + KDE port

[From: Mattias Schlenker]

Lorn Potter wrote:

>
> Actually, Trolltech does not worry about it very much at all, we don't 
> really see free software as competition. If we did, we wouldn't give 
> our source code away.
>
> We just think there is a better solution already out there, that 
> requires much less work to deploy, and find it curious.
>

There is never a better solution to any point. Qt/Qtopia is a good 
platform as well as Gtk/Gnome is. A strong point for using Gtk for Maemo 
might be the LGPL: if someone wants to develop a closed source 
application for maemo, he can do it without having to buy a commercial 
developers license first. Since Nokia wants to sell the device and not 
the development toolkit, this could be a good argument for the survival 
of the platform and the device itself. Sometimes software is just a 
feature of hardware...

Regards,
Mattias

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