[Qt-interest] The argument for Qt

[Scott Aron Bloom]

But there are projects that do linger on, starving to death with no "end
in sight"... No one working on them... 

I understand the desktops of KDE and gnome aren't going anywhere that we
can see... But if KDE moved into the sunset, and no one really was using
it anymore...

And Qt is dropped by Nokia and digia decides to not keep it up.. Qt
could be in trouble..

HOWEVER, I think that is very very unlikely...

My biggest concern over the last two+ years is the lack of pushing for
new Desktop, and the push towards mobile... on a dying mobile platform
that no one in the US is using at all

Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: qt-interest-bounces+scott.bloom=onshorecs.com at qt.nokia.com
[mailto:qt-interest-bounces+scott.bloom=onshorecs.com at qt.nokia.com] On
Behalf Of Nikos Chantziaras
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 3:34 PM
To: qt-interest at qt.nokia.com
Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] The argument for Qt

Everything can die because of something else.  Cocoa can die because of
Windows.

Btw, right now it looks more like Gnome is more likely to die because of
KDE rather than the other way around.  But it won't.  KDE and Gnome
aren't products.  They are projects.  I think this is what you people
have a hard time grasping.  A product can die rather easy.  With a
project, that's much more difficult because there's no money involved
and success isn't crucial.  A non-successful product dies.  A
non-successful project doesn't.

But if you need a 100% guarantee that something won't die, you won't get
one.  Not even for a Microsoft product.


On 10/18/2011 10:10 PM, Scott Aron Bloom wrote:
> But KDE can die, because of Gnome...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: qt-interest-bounces+scott.bloom=onshorecs.com at qt.nokia.com
> [mailto:qt-interest-bounces+scott.bloom=onshorecs.com at qt.nokia.com] On
> Behalf Of Nikos Chantziaras
> Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 3:05 PM
> To: qt-interest at qt.nokia.com
> Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] The argument for Qt
>
> On 10/18/2011 09:23 PM, Bob Hood wrote:
>> I have pointed to Qt's "open governance" as a move to protect it from
>> the corporate "chaos" and ensure that it remains an open, viable and
>> maintained toolkit. Again, not enough.
>>
>> Is there anything more I can site that I haven't?
>
> KDE.  Just like Gtk can't die because of Gnome, .NET can't die because
> of Windows, Cocoa can't die because of Mac OS X, Qt can't die because
of
> KDE.  Nokia could even try to actively kill Qt, but nothing will work
> against it, because of KDE.
>
> It's as simple as that.
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