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Last news of today ... Nokia tablet (ok .. not a news ... ) : but the Os seems not to be choosed : Windows or Meego .....  seeing last bad news about symbian, cut in development for Meego and Symbian, ... I am a afraid to guess Windows 



Le 28 avr. 2011 à 22:15, Konrad Rosenbaum a écrit :

> On Thursday 28 April 2011, Ross Bencina wrote:
>> Something that is less clear is how many Qt developers Digia now employ.
> 
> According to their own press release at the time they already employed a 
> significant number of Qt experts before they got this business.
> 
>> Without sufficient development resources from each stakeholder Open
>> Governance is not very meaningful. With all due respect to Thiago and KDE
>> I fear that the whole Open Governance business will basically be a
>> KDE/FOSS take-over since individual commercial stakeholders pay money
>> precisely to let someone else manage development -- they vote with their
>> $ and don't have time to sit on governance comittees (speaking for
>> myself at least!).
> 
> You usually pay those $ to someone who is quite interested in Qt, like 
> Digia, and who will most probably be part of open governance. They will 
> naturally try to steer Qt into the direction their customers demand.
> 
>> It really is a fascinating political situation. To my mind the best
>> placed stakeholder is KDE, with Nokia wasting resources on its dying
>> platforms, and Digia being sold a viable support business, but perhaps
>> not enough power to maintain a viable commercial library offering. In
>> this sense I agree with Gustavo's concerns about Qt Desktop support on
>> Windows and OSX. I _hope_ Digia do good things but I havn't seen any
>> proactive development roadmap from them, only word of "business as
>> usual" for commercial Qt support.
> 
> There are two things you can do:
> 
> 1) invest time: develop enhancements and fixes yourself. And submit them.
> 
> 2) invest money: make others do all this for you.
> 
> If you go with option 2 there are plenty of choices, Digia is just one of 
> them. Have a look at http://qt.nokia.com/services-partners/ for a (probably 
> incomplete) list of choices...
> 
> Well, there are these options as well:
> 
> 3) do nothing and despair.
> 
> 4) complain all the time without effect.
> 
> 5) just hope for the best.
> 
> ..but they are not the best options of course... ;-)
> 
> 
> 
> 	Konrad
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