Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: > (Private note: I have this strange sense of Deja Vu :-), although it's been a > long time since we had this argument :-) > > On Tuesday 12 May 2009 02:56:12 Lorn Potter wrote: >> Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: >>> Yeah, >>> >>> that's pretty sad. They should have picked FSO or even Pyneo or at least >>> something that is already in development for quite a while. This way it >>> looks like NIH syndrome. >> kettle calling the pot black... >> I always thought one of open source's strengths was choice. > > What sounds like an asset is a liability thanks to fragmentation. I'd rather > chose among few great options than lots of medicre ones. > >>> Until now, trying to co-work with these guys typically went like "yeah, >>> you can take our APIs, if you want. No, we don't want to look at yours, >>> thanks.". >> This is partly due to the fact that they planned the roadmap forward in >> years, not weeks or months, not to mention the waterfall development style >> they are probably using. >> >> It might have been developed internally for quite some time before this. > > Which doesn't make me more confident in their ability to shape the platform > APIs _together_ with the application developers as opposed to merely impose > it > on them. If it continues to be like that, FSO has a bright life. > >>> In contrast to that, FSO rather embraces application developer's >>> requests. >>> >>> Lets see what happens this time. >> You tell me, is Nokia opening up and really embracing open source? >> http://qt.gitorious.org/qt > > That's Qt and they have inherited this style from Trolltech.
But it isn't "Trolltech" that gave the "ok" for this to go ahead. Nokia had to sign off on it too. > > The way Nokia has developed Maemo it was always about take it or leave it the > way it is. True. But Nokia is paranoid about patents and copyrights and licenses and such things. Which might explain one reason why this has been true. > > Open source does not necessarily mean an open development process, you should > know that better than me :) I think that most open source projects have a rather closed development process. -- Lorn 'ljp' Potter Software Engineer, Qt Software R&D, Nokia Pty Ltd _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
