Hey John, 2011/2/11 John Robson <[email protected]>: > http://www.nokia.com/press/press-releases/showpressrelease?newsid=1488007 > > http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2011/feb11/02-11partnership.mspx > > > I work with Free Software only, now I'm worried about Qt. > > I would like to know about the politics of the EMWEB and Wt about Free > Software.
Our politics have nothing to do with those of Nokia. Our toolkit has some things in common with Qt, as we consider it a good example of a C++ GUI API. But there is no reason to translate what happens with Qt to our world. We are committed to Wt under the current licensing model (including free software), and are steadily making the tookit better release after release. We continue to listen to your requests for features and improvements, as we have in the past. We are not your "conventional web framework", but after having attended a talk at FOSDEM on Django by a Django core developer (Andrew Goodwin), I was quite un-impressed with what a conventional web framework does for you. Django is widely regarded as a best-of-breed solution, but is struggling with basic things like CSRF, XSS, WebSockets, and requires pervasive caching to keep performance reasonable. These things are not easy to solve for Django because the entire framework is built around a request/response model. Obviously, the same argument goes for most conventional web frameworks. Seeing what improvements are still possible to Wt, and how some new web browser features seem almost designed for Wt (like WebSockets, and the HTML5 History API which we'll support for internal paths), we will continue to enjoy (and continue to do) what we do. W.r.t. GPLv2 versus GPLv3: I'll check with our legal advisor, but from what I remember the GPLv3 has a number of drawbacks (for developers) too ? Regards, koen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb _______________________________________________ witty-interest mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/witty-interest
