On Wed, 01 Aug 2012 21:14:07 +0200 Thiago Macieira <thiago.macie...@intel.com> wrote: > On quarta-feira, 1 de agosto de 2012 11.32.29, Jason H wrote: > > Would I? > > > > I'm no expert at making money, however I think that if there was an > > organization staffed with people who could modify Qt and interested > > companies that companies could contract for the desired > > modifications. The problem is playing nice with the open > > governance. And you could also offer sponsored development > > projects. Heck, use some crowd funding to cooperatively bust > > through some barriers. True, companies could contract directly, but > > they would have to be more hands-on and if there was a company they > > could centrally manage development so there is no overlap during > > simultaneous projects. > > That depends on the size of this company. > > Do you want a small company to do some development and keep some > level of CI running? That requires a certain amount of funds and > contracting. > > Do you want a company that has all the current developers and > marketing and community and sysadmin, keeping the CI system at the > current level and expand it, and continue hiring, and run Qt > Developer Days and the Summit and everything else? That requires a > lot more funding.
Maybe someone like intel realizing that their ultra-books would be ultra-cool if they had a feature-rich yet power-saving OS and gui based on Qt and meego (or whatever its current project-name is, I lost track)? Have fun, Arnold Disclosure: We are an intel-reseller...
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