On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Andrew Flegg <and...@bleb.org> wrote:
> I'm sure it's very exciting for OEMs like VMware to now have the > option of using Qt rather than GTK in their closed-source UIs. Perhaps > it's also now an option for Wayfinder. But these people had money, and > the option of a commercial licence anyway. > > Am I missing something big? Please say I am :-) You're only missing that sometimes even for proprietary software, "no cost" vs "reasonable cost" matters. Sometimes the GUI doesn't matter much, and the license change means developers can consider Qt more easily than before. (That's probably less the case for Maemo, but generally it seems likely to be so.) A more interesting (but likely speculative) question is why Nokia made the change. My guess is that internally they regard Qt commercial licensing as a distraction from their main business, and (though it may be at some level irrational) they prefer to exchange the income (and distraction) for the positive publicity. _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
