[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Nokia developer contact?

[From: Lorn Potter]

On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 08:21 pm, Justin Bradford wrote:

> Perhaps because actual and potential maemo open source developers are
> sick of hearing about how it should really be a QT/e based platform.
well, if so many people mention this, maybe it's true.

> What exactly is better about that approach, besides, of course, that
> Trolltech gets $$$ for any commercial developer that decides to
> consider the platform. Why would Nokia choose a QT based system when
> they actually want commercial developers?
>
> And, as it it is a flamewar and all, perhaps the unpleasantness is
> just the consequence of general nausea at the prospect of having to
> pay some random company for the mere privilege of developing
> commercial applications for a platform.

and I suppose you get your hardware free from a non company entity? 

There are good reasons why businesses would want one _real_ company behind 
software that they are trying to develop a device for.


> For what it's worth, this is the first Linux-based handheld/"embedded"
> device I was interested in developing for, largely because it was the
> first device that didn't use QT.
>
> Sure a QT license is a trivial percentage of the cost of commercial
> development, but I refuse to consider a platform that *requires* QT on
> simple principle. And this is being written on a laptop running
> Windows. And moreover, a laptop running Windows with well over $2000
> of Windows development software on it. But if I wanted, developing
> commercial apps for Windows or MacOS (which I do), could cost nothing
> more than that needed for testing. But developing for KDE still
> requires an unvoidable tithe to Trolltech. Any platform that has a
> core, fundamental library under the GPL license should be shunned,
> whether RMS is pleased or not.
heh. Qt is dual licensed. LGPL isn't really about free software anyway, but 
let's not digress.

> And the sheer arrogance of Trolltech and their positioning of QT makes
excuse me? Arrogance? I came from the open source developer world, and I see 
no arrogance at Trolltech. Only arrogance I see is from zealots living in a 
black and white world.

> me wish that that company (and their employees who decided on this
> course of action) will rot in hell for eternity. There is no company
> in the world I would rather see sink into bankruptcy and oblivion more
> than Trolltech. They have done incalcuable damage to the state of the
> Linux desktop.
Riiight. 



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