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Awesome!
by fred on Tuesday 15/Apr/2008, @12:40
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| This is awesome! Finally Qt is supported in maemo. By supporting Qt (and buying Trolltech), Nokia can get a whole bunch of superior Qt and KDE applications: office suite (KOffice), multimedia (KDE multimedia), PIM (KDEPIM), networking (KDE Network), and the list goes on.. It becomes clearer why Nokia wants to buy Trolltech ;) |
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Re: Awesome!
by Debian User on Tuesday 15/Apr/2008, @14:36
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Hello,
actually no, it doesn't. All this software was Free before. And it remains Free, so what's the point of owning it? Likely not the ability to ship KDE programs. That was Free before.
Yours,
Kay
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Re: Awesome!
by because on Tuesday 15/Apr/2008, @15:15
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by owning trolltech, nokia can make qt's developpers work on qt's compatibility with maemo.
QT was free, it IS still free, but now the "free" way is lead by nokia ^^.
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Re: Awesome!
by she on Wednesday 16/Apr/2008, @03:41
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"QT was free, it IS still free, but now the "free" way is lead by nokia ^^."
Wrong. Qt itself was not free, they always had a commercial license which one had to get when one wanted to use it. (For closed source apps for example)
Back then the dependence on Trolltech was one main reason why Gnome was started (and it is now funny that they wanted to incorporate C#/Mono stuff... probably they get paid)
KDE on the other hand was always free in the sense of "free". They even have a clause that when Qt would ever become non-free as such, KDE could continue (and fork the latest non free part too)
Just because Nokia bought Trolltech doesnt mean that Trolltech changes its agenda.
You cant say this without looking at the FACTS, and so far I believe Nokia has hardly done ANYTHING, they just seemed happy with the acquisition.
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Re: Awesome!
by she on Wednesday 16/Apr/2008, @03:41
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Sorry, not to "use" it. Using it was easy.
But to "develop apps with QT" one needed a license.
That sentence earlier was misleading.
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Re: Awesome!
by Janne on Wednesday 16/Apr/2008, @05:37
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"Wrong. Qt itself was not free, they always had a commercial license which one had to get when one wanted to use it."
Wrong. Since it was also licensed under the GPL, I would say that it most certainly was free. Well, excluding the early history with QPL and the like.
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Re: Awesome!
by David Johnson on Wednesday 16/Apr/2008, @22:14
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The QPL is a free software license. It's just not GPL compatible. But it is still free.
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Re: Awesome!
by Birdy on Tuesday 15/Apr/2008, @15:42
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> It becomes clearer why Nokia wants to buy Trolltech ;)
Nokia bought Trolltech to push Qt to Maemo?!?
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Re: Awesome!
by Stefan Majewsky on Wednesday 16/Apr/2008, @07:16
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It is possible that Nokia wants Trolltech because of possible uncertainties in GTK's future (looking at the GTK3 discussions). Qt is a safe way as one can buy it and then control it.
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Re: Awesome!
by David Johnson on Wednesday 16/Apr/2008, @22:17
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GTK+ is also poorly supported on Mac and Windows. Not everything Nokia does is embedded Linux.
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Re: Awesome!
by Fri13 on Thursday 17/Apr/2008, @11:22
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"It becomes clearer why Nokia wants to buy Trolltech ;)"
I hope Nokia is not going to do same thing what Sun did for MySQL. They closed it's source...
This is big problem when company "owns" GPL software and then that company is sold out to other company what can cut all new code to be Closed Source and FOSS side is needed to make own fork.
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Re: Awesome!
by Anon Reloaded on Thursday 17/Apr/2008, @12:00
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"I hope Nokia is not going to do same thing what Sun did for MySQL. They closed it's source... "
No they didn't - don't believe everything you see in awful slashdot editorials :) Everything that is currently GPL'd in MySQL is staying GPL'd, but further components developed by SUN may or may not be placed under a proprietary or non-GPL license. It's a net win for MySQL and its users.
Plus, Nokia would gain absolutely nothing by closing the source, and they would lose an awful lot, and they are smart enough to see this.
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