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Interesting! I hadn't heard of them, but according to their webpage, ICS has a customer base of more than 10,000. What's the size of the company, though? Do they have the muscle to develop Qt and sell services on top?Quote:
Originally Posted by frantaylor
Perhaps a lesson to be learned from the current experience is that frameworks are best owned by companies that rely on themQuote:
Originally Posted by s4nt1
A company that treats it as a "side business" is never going to give the project the respect and resources it deserves
If they are betting their company on the next release then for sure you are going to see a better quality product
I'm wondering what exactly they have left of Qt to sell.
- people? Most have been sacked or left
- trademark? Wasn't this donated to the organization
The way I see it, the only thing they can sell are the copyrights, ie a way for someone to publish proprietary Qt versions.
ICS could be a good buyer, but I do not discard ARM because they the main player in the embedded arena. Having Qt in his porfolio, with Qt optimized for their platform will help them to compete with the other embedded players (like MIPS or PPC).Quote:
Originally Posted by frantaylor
Qt need to be forked! ASAP. Dibs not!Quote:
Originally Posted by curaga
trollkit.org is available.
What about Google? They have loads of cash to buy something like Qt
Yeah. And stripping off LGPL and GPL. Bye bye freedom.Quote:
Originally Posted by DeepDayze
Nokia Reportedly Losing Relevance, Dying Soon
What open source projects might Google have bought and then close down?Quote:
Originally Posted by funkSTAR
I really feel sorry for the Finns to see their former top company going from hero to zero at an astounding pace. :/Quote:
Originally Posted by d2kx