On 07/10/2014 12:20 PM, Ch'Gans wrote: > On 09/07/14 19:53, Andrea Barna wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am Andrea from Digia Qt, I have recently taken over the Qt >> businessin your region. > Hi Andrea, > > All the best for your new position! > >> I noticed that you downloaded the trial version of Qt last year and >> Iwas wondering whether the evaluation went well. >> >> It would be helpful to understand why you were evaluating Qt, and >> learn more about what type of application you are developing. > I downloaded your evaluation version of Qt to see how different it is > from the open source one. I am especially interested in embedded and > industrial application and as such I was curious about your "Boot to Qt" > technology. > I was not really surprised to discover that your proprietary "Boot to > Qt" technology is based on the open-source Yocto project [1], and I > think that instead of keeping this technology closed, you should be the > official maintainer of the Qt5 Yocto layer (lot of work is needed there, > and you have handles in-house), I think you should contact the Linux > Foundation [2], they will be glad to see you being a major actor in the > open-source embedded Linux world. > > > Furthermore is there anything that Digia–Qt can help you with? > > Definitely yes: please open up your open source based > commercial/proprietary boot to Qt technology. > I am not asking that because I am an open-source fanatic, I am asking > that because this is the only reliable and efficient way to get Qt > massively adopted on the embedded/industrial Linux market, I think that > Digia should be a (publicly visible) key actor in this sector. > > Maybe one day you will be able to replace your "Code once, run > everywhere" with "Code once, run everywhere, without pain!". > Getting Qt5 + Yocto + OpenGL-ES running across different ARM SoCs is a > real pain. > > Best regards, > Chris > > PS: No disrespect to you, Digia, Nokia, TrollTech and all the Qt trolls, > hat off and thumb up to all you guys! I am just tired to see a beautiful > open-source SW community being permanently fooled by professional > closed-source HW company. Please don't be part of this masquerade! > > PS2: I've CC'ed the Qt developer mailing list (public archived available > [3]), hoping this could be useful to someone, somehow, someday. > > [1] https://www.yoctoproject.org/ > [2] http://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/contact > [3] http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/ >
I'm curious how you think Digia can fund future development of things like Boot to Qt if they give it away for free? >> I look forward to hearing about your project. > >> Best Regards, >> Andrea >> >> Andrea Barna | Junior Sales Executive >> Digia Norway AS, Sandakerveien 116, PoBOX 23 Nydalen, 0410 Oslo, Norway >> Email: [email protected] | Phone : +47 210 80 420 | Fax : +47 21080439 >> http://qt.digia.com |Qt Blog: http://blog.qt.digia.com/ |Qt Facebook: >> www.facebook.com/qt |Qt Twitter: @QtbyDigia >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------ >> PRIVACY AND CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE >> This message and any attachments are intended only for use by the named >> addressee and may contain privileged and/or confidential information. If you >> are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, copy or take any >> action in reliance on it. If you have received this message in error, please >> contact the sender immediately and delete the message and any attachments >> accompanying it. Digia Plc does not accept liability for any corruption, >> interception, amendment, tampering or viruses occurring to this message. >> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >> _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
