Re: Life after Opie 1.2.0

On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 05:34 am, Andreas Richter wrote:
> 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.
too much time and not enough developers. Really. Who's going to do all 
this work?

> One plus i see is:
> When we can release opie-libs under LGPL other developers or companies can

I personally don't like the LGPL from the standpoint of free software, 
and I don't recommend free software using it. The LGPL is not about free 
software, it's about letting companies take your work that you provided 
for free without having to give back to the community. RMS even says do 
not use the LGPL.
Businesses that want to use and sell Opie and it's LGPL's status will 
still have to purchase commercial QT/E licenses from Trolltech, because 
when you link LGPL libraries against GPL libraries, it effectively makes 
everything GPL anyway.

Trolltech's position on the LGPL is like that of any other business. We 
like it. Qtopia even uses LGPL'd libraries.

> 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.

Further fragmention is not good, IMHO...
Of course you can do whatever you want, but if you start over from 
scratch, it would be a different project and not Opie. Opie got a head 
start from the work Trolltech did on Qpe..

--

-- 
Lorn 'ljp' Potter
Qtopia Community Manager
irc.freenode.net #qtopia
http://qtopia.net
_______________________________________________

http://opie.handhelds.org/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/DeveloperWikiIndex

Opie-devel mailing list
Opie-devel <at> handhelds.org
https://handhelds.org/mailman/listinfo/opie-devel