On ons, 2006-04-19 at 13:06 -0700, ext Shawn Gordon wrote: [snip]
> faster because it is done, has been used, refined, debugged and > developed for for years, so other than device drivers in the kernel > it wouldn't have taken hardly any time at all to get it up and running. > > cheaper - I'm assuming cheaper based on what I know of the licensing > costs and the costs to hire a bunch of developers for years to > develop and support the software. Nokia is not going to just rely on > the open source community for something that they depend on, they > will certainly have their own developers and these are going to be > far more expensive than simply paying a small per unit license cost > (I'm talking ones of dollars per unit). Just using plain Qtopia wouldn't have been an option, just as using plain GTK+ without Hildon wasn't an option; we had to use a UI that looks somewhat like Nokia's earlier products, without forking too wildly. So the work effort would've been the same either way; the difference being that Qtopia would've incurred the added penalties of a licensing cost, C++, and of course the extra legal issues surrounding the fact that Qtopia is GPL, not LGPL. The Nokia legal process is not a smoothly operating machine, it's more akin to the Spanish inquisition... [snip] The world is only black and white if you filter out the greys by deliberately ignoring to see some things and are not privy to other things. Regards: David _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
