Re: Life after Opie 1.2.0

Am Mittwoch, 13. April 2005 15:45 schrieb Michael 'Mickey' Lauer:
> Hi fellow developers,

Hi all,

here are my 2 cents...

> a) fixing bugs and polishing what we currently have

Thats the simplest way :) and the most likely one (imho).

> c) starting from scratch with something revolutionary rather
>    than cloning existing environments

That's my favorite. And yes i know that's too many work for a hand full 
developers, we are at the moment. But we have a real chance to make Opie 
attractive for the user and for 3rd party developers. And projects like KDE 
have also started with a handfull of developers. It cost time, sweat and 
nerves to bring Opie 1.2 from scratch to a usable state.

One plus i see is:
When we can release opie-libs under LGPL other developers or companies can 
provide their software on top of Opie. And that is then a real competition to 
Qtopia. And i know that TT don't like it even if we have a big big work for 
us but we also have all chances to make a better software than Qtopia are. 
Remember i don't think Qtopia is really bad software but we have had problems 
with it in the past. So we have now the chance to split from Qtopia and try 
out to make it better.

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Greetings / Gruss
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