Re: GTK vs QTopia vs Android - (was: Re: Android needsapplications) (will be: new vision for openmoko)
From my POV, when people at OpenMoko decided on GTK for its paltform they are giving developers the ability to participate and influence *directly* on its development, and create great apps, both opensource and proprietary, without paying any license fees. The Nokia decision when build the Maemo platform was of the same nature. Qtopia has none of these traits. Look that the pricing is not the most importante issue, its the control over the development of the platform, as the history of Microsoft and IBM roles in the beginning of PCs told us, who controls the software runs the show. I personally prefer the model where the community runs the show, and think that the companies behind OpenMoko and Maemo prefer that no other random company gives the cards on its hardware platform. -- Marcelo Lira dos Santos http://setanta.wordpress.com @CInLUG: http://www.cin.ufpe.br/~cinlug @Ciência Livre: http://www.ciencialivre.pro.br @INdT: http://www.indt.org.br ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: GTK vs QTopia vs Android - (was: Re: Android needsapplications) (will be: new vision for openmoko)
License fees for Qtopia (and Qt) are a pittance compared to the fees of even one engineer for one year for any company Yes I agree with you before you said it: Look that the pricing is not the most importante issue You can influence directly the development of Qtopia very easily. It appears more that you can assist the development than decide its future. I agree that the patent argument is an issue to every company, but these days who isn't violating another company software patent? The security that Qtopia offers over projects like OpenMoko or Maemo is some patent arsenal from Trolltech, or some agreement like the Novell-Microsoft one? If I'm following correctly almost every opensource project should be judged dangerous by the companies. -- Marcelo Lira dos Santos http://setanta.wordpress.com @CInLUG: http://www.cin.ufpe.br/~cinlug @Ciência Livre: http://www.ciencialivre.pro.br @INdT: http://www.indt.org.br ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
