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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 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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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 PostQt is a bastard which can never be free unless it is forked.
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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 PostLOL. Nokia was no way forced to make an agreement with Digia! No one is forcing anything on Nokia, they decide for them self.
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Originally posted by Luke_Wolf View PostLikely the same reason that they've got the contributor agreement. They want people to use the LGPL licensed one but they currently have a contractual obligation to provide a version under a proprietary license. Hopefully this will change with Qt 5.x series.
And no, Digia is NOT sorry about the poor upstream management that left out the "118 additional improvements". Digia is f....ing advertising it!
It is official now: The Microsoft strategic partner, Nokia, just allowed closed-source commercial opencore business of Qt.
What a dream come true for free software!!!! Just boycott Qt and the willingly from KDE who dont seem to a problem with this. This is ten timse worse than Mono.
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Qt is portable. If the KDE library's break this portability its harder to get application developer. As I see it, its not important that the desktop is portable but its very important that the libraries is.
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That's all fine and dandy, but nobody in their right mind is ever going to run KDE on anything other then on a BSD or Linux system. The only people that really care about that sort of thing are KDE developers that run OS X as their main desktops and whatnot.
It's nice, but it's not like it really is going to matter much to anybody except a tiny audience.
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