[Interest] Well there goes Nokia

[Jason H]

Would I?

I'm no expert at making money, however I think that if there was an organization staffed with people who could modify Qt and interested companies that companies could contract for the desired modifications. The problem is playing nice with the open governance. And you could also offer sponsored development projects. Heck, use some crowd funding to cooperatively bust through some barriers. True, companies could contract directly, but they would have to be more hands-on and if there was a company they could centrally manage development so there is no overlap during simultaneous projects.




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 From: Mark <markg85 at gmail.com>
To: Jason H <scorp1us at yahoo.com> 
Cc: Lorn Potter <lorn.potter at gmail.com>; "interest at qt-project.org" <interest at qt-project.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, August 1, 2012 2:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Interest] Well there goes Nokia
 
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Jason H <scorp1us at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Anyone else feel like starting a company called TechTroll and giving Qt
> another shot?
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> From: Lorn Potter <lorn.potter at gmail.com>
> To: Mark <markg85 at gmail.com>
> Cc: Jason H <scorp1us at yahoo.com>; "interest at qt-project.org"
> <interest at qt-project.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 1, 2012 2:03 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Interest] Well there goes Nokia
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> On 02/08/2012, at 4:00 AM, Mark wrote:
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>> As far as i know, only the part to sell support/licenses has been sold
>> to Digia. The development of Qt is still in Nokia's hands. Please do
>> correct me if i'm wrong.
>
> The development of Qt is in qt-project's hands.
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>

Sure, you just need a big pile of money to do that ;)
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