On 28 Jan 2008, at 18:33, matthiasm wrote: > Nokia buys Trolltech/Qt:
Yup. I hope it works out well - I'm not a KDE user, but I guess we'd miss it if it went... Years ago, before I came to fltk, I used to use a cross-platform GUI tool that was closed source, but free for non-commercial work. We used it at work back then, and it was handy for home jobs... Then they got bought over, and things went badly down hill. Updates slowed, bugfixes and releases disappeared. The product doesn't exist as such anymore, and although we have gone on using the last release (at work) to maintain the body of code we wrote using it originally, we use other things (e.g. fltk) for new work. You really have to wonder what the suits that bought it thought they were doing; they needed it for their own toolchain, but then they strangled it for everybody. Just couldn't leave well enough alone. Killed the goose that laid the golden egg, etc. Let's hope Nokia are smarter than that. > Anyways, interesting times. Makes me wonder if for the sake of "break > on the table", LGPL is the right licensing scheme... :-) What does "break on the table" mean? -- Ian _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
