Kai Ponte wrote:
On Monday 05 March 2007 08:38:44 pm John Andersen wrote:
On Monday 05 March 2007, Russell Jones wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
On Thursday 01 March 2007, Kai Ponte wrote:
went about their business for the sole reason of "snubbing Trolltech" as you said. We should have all rallied behind Trolltech to encourage them to adopt an OSS model earlier.
Personally, I think that's rather naive. I don't think one has to demonstrate superiority to be pursuing the morally correct course. It was far from clear that Trolltech would ever GPL their software. It is quite possible that they are perfectly trustworthy and always have been, but for similar reasons that I favour two parties (at least) over one and a full market-place over a monopoly, I think that it was useful to have two similar widget systems. I'm not sure that's the case (on the Desktop) any more. Trolltech's tardiness and apparent heel-dragging with Qtopia 4.x which caused Opie 2 to be held up makes me think otherwise of PDAs, and does make me suspicious of what they might try to pull in future if they take too much of the market. Tell you what: if there's a KDE theme that looks like GNOME, let me know and I'll give it a go :-) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org