They aren't reinventing the wheel, it's GTK. And as far as GPL not being important, I think you miss the point of the entire project. Open source isn't just about free software, it's about a free community.
On 8/24/07, wim delvaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > HI all, > > Champion of open source and user of familiar on Ipaq when time was new, i > wonder if it was such a good idea to rewrite from scratch an entire GUI > system. > > Knowing that the device is now about 6 months late and looking at the > overall > stability and completeness of the GUI (List of issues is still long > perhaps > too long ?) I wonder if it would not have been a better solution to put > things like QTopia on the phone. I mean, how long will it still take to > get > things to this level > ( > http://trolltech.com/products/qtopia/learnmore/screenshots4/?searchterm=screenshots) > ? > > Perhaps with a different style or something but at least QTopia has been > around for quite a few years, sporting a nice portfolio of apps, having a > nice ,portable and powerfull GUI library. > > I know that the software is not fully GPL and FREE but what REALLY is > Fully > free ? AFAIK you can mess around with qtopia ad lib (hey, look at opie's > fork), sources are available, support is great (KDE ...) and for FIC's > sake, > they can focus there entire resource of a great phone. > > For me, the free community does not need (really) a new GUI library. It > needs > a good phone ! Our interest lies in having a nicely featured device > available > so that we hackers can release our creativity and write apps that users > like > and not - yet again - re-invent the wheel to start all over again. And > for > what ? For a theme ? For true GPL ? ... > > So what about porting QTopia to the NEO as backup scenario ? I.e. how much > more delays can we afford ? > > W > > _______________________________________________ > OpenMoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >
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