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Re: Will the FreeQt foundation actually work?
by Segedunum on Monday 28/Jan/2008, @05:52
"You miss the point - it's not in the interests of other manufacturers to use Nokia's toolkit. Simple example: what if Ericsson needs a change to Qt to work on its new device? They have to go rely on their competitor to make the change to help them"

For starters, Qt is an open source platform, and secondly, I see few of Microsoft's competitors having a problem with Windows - and that's even worse.
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Re: Will the FreeQt foundation actually work?
by Sage on Monday 28/Jan/2008, @13:17
Qt may be open source but we are speaking about the commercial license.

As to Microsoft, at this point there is little choice for most people, but it's not at all analogous. A better analogy: Intel relying on AMD to write its microcode for its processors.
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  • Re: Will the FreeQt foundation actually work?
    by Segedunum on Tuesday 29/Jan/2008, @05:57
    "Qt may be open source but we are speaking about the commercial license."

    So what? What is in Qt is what is in Qt. The open source version has the enterprise source code, and if you're a customer then you get the Qt source code as well.

    "As to Microsoft, at this point there is little choice for most people, but it's not at all analogous."

    Yes it is - certainly from what you're implying. These days Microsoft's competitors have no choice but to write software for Microsoft's platform and with their development tools, which means that Microsoft is first to market with everything. With Qt, that just isn't the case. If someone is really worried then they can use Qt for some things and not for others.

    "A better analogy: Intel relying on AMD to write its microcode for its processors."

    As long as they can get control over that microcode and write their own then it's not a problem and a pretty poor example.
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