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Originally posted by TheBlackCat View PostIt was either that or continue to support it themselves. They had contracts with groups to support the closed-source version. They couldn't abandon them without violating their contracts.
Reality is no-one at Nokia and the former Trolltech cared about free software. Yeah they like the free advertisement from being a formal KDE dependency. But that's about it. Please leave your state of full denial. Qt is a bastard which can never be free unless it is forked.
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Originally posted by funkSTAR View PostQt is a bastard which can never be free unless it is forked.
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It is not lack of common sense. It is the lack og balls and brains. It is evident that a project seeking maximum freedom wont let it self get chained by commercial interests of a single company. Realizing this and acting on this requires more than couch-sitters with interests in keeping their commercial jobs.
Linux is doing perfectly fine without a commercial entity to grab all the freedom an neutrality. So please stop your nonsense. Unless your another paid-by from the commercial license?
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Originally posted by funkSTAR View PostIt is not lack of common sense. It is the lack og balls and brains. It is evident that a project seeking maximum freedom wont let it self get chained by commercial interests of a single company. Realizing this and acting on this requires more than couch-sitters with interests in keeping their commercial jobs.
Linux is doing perfectly fine without a commercial entity to grab all the freedom an neutrality. So please stop your nonsense. Unless your another paid-by from the commercial license?
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Originally posted by funkSTAR View PostLinux is doing perfectly fine without a commercial entity to grab all the freedom an neutrality. So please stop your nonsense. Unless your another paid-by from the commercial license?
Community Provides Innovation, but companies provide the drudgery work nobody really cares to do. We need both rather than trying to exclude either side.
The Simple fact of the matter is that there are thousands of companies that work on the linux kernel, here let me list a few big names:
Red Hat
Novell (Now Attachmate)
AMD
Intel
HP
IBM
Google
(and here in this list just for you) Microsoft
And oh guess what? the Linux Kernel is as free as it's ever been, and is much better off for all of their contributions. I for one say thank you to all the businesses and individual contributors who've added to the kernel and applaud their work.
If you want to go off and play in your company-less land you can go use HURD oh wait no... their Microkernel has been contributed to by a company, BSD? nope, uh... Plan 9? nope that's a development from a company.. QNX? oh wait.. another company created one, L4? nope IBM... well have fun writing your own kernel, with your own display server, and your own toolkit, and such because you're pretty much SOL otherwise.
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Originally posted by Luke_Wolf View PostThe Simple fact of the matter is that there are thousands of companies that work on the linux kernel, here let me list a few big names:
Red Hat
Novell (Now Attachmate)
AMD
Intel
HP
IBM
Google
(and here in this list just for you) Microsoft
Sorry but no piece of sofware is worth that.
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Originally posted by funkSTAR View PostFree from having an antilinux owner like Nokia who will scare alot of contributors away.
Originally posted by funkSTAR View PostAnd now we even have seen the star om the open core business model through Digia.
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Originally posted by funkSTAR View PostNEWSFLASH. The Qt owners are already hurting linux phone producers.
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Originally posted by funkSTAR View PostDo you know why? Because Linux is truly free. Free from having an antilinux owner like Nokia who will scare alot of contributors away. I never said companies shouldnt og couldnt contribute. I hope they will. But not in the form of CLAing rights to Microsoft strategic partner. Having Nokia own a toolkit is as stupid as having Oracle own OOo. And now we even have seen the star om the open core business model through Digia.
Sorry but no piece of sofware is worth that.
Digia itself from my perusing of their site makes their money the same way Red Hat does which is to say support contracts.
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