willem ha scritto:
John Stoneham wrote:
On Jan 28, 2008 5:25 AM, Ales Katona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Qt4 cannot be "closed". Development can be stopped from the
Trolltech/Nokia side, but the GPL v4 which was released will remain.
Moreover, the foundation has rights to continue Qt development "should
Trolltech be bought".
Yes that can happen, but Commercial firms are getting nervous about
the growth of the Open Source Movement.
Sun did acquire MySql.
IBM developed Open Office further with their Lotus Symphony.
So Open Source is a Winner :-D
I second your opinion.
Just give a look to:
http://opensource.nokia.com/
and to
http://opensource.nokia.com/projects/index.html
Not all manufacturers are brain damaged. Some can tell the difference
between the tools they use (where Open Source provide a quality which
can't be even dreamed by closed source), and their final product, which
can be protected with specific patents.
Giuliano
--
Giuliano Colla
Whenever people agree with me, I always feel I must be wrong (O. Wilde)
_________________________________________________________________
To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with
"unsubscribe" as the Subject
archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
