Andres, > I have no plan, but market exists. The facts: > - Many MeeGo and Maemo users and developers feel abandoned. ...
I agree with your sentiments, and I too followed the Nokia decision making process with great interest. However, we don't need to be as short-sighted as some others are. I read a lot of Meego and Qt developer forum and blog post comments, hundreds of them. Let's try to be different by letting things grow organically. Qt is LGPL licensed now, Nokia's source code admission policy was dubious already and who knows how it will continue. A fork is always possible but I don't think it's the right time now. Let's trust the great many people that are still working on Meego, Qt and related technologies, and be happy that (some) more funding will come from Nokia. There may even be a good amount of managerial and executive support inside Nokia, let's see how this plays out. Maybe it's time to quote Werner again: "The life expectancy of free software is bigger than that of Nokia." (slightly modified) The free phone will come, and it will emerge somewhere. Cheers, Wolfgang P.S.: If anybody can convince Nokia or Intel to rapid prototype some of those fascinating 'next disruption' type of devices with a small motivated hardware startup, I'm up for it... _______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): [email protected] Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
