Nokia Engineers on KHTML

Rich writes "KDE could soon be making its way into your mobile phone. At aKademy in August David Carson and Deepika Chauhan from Nokia presented the work they've done in integrating KDE components into the latest version of the company's mobile phone software. Philip Rodrigues discusses this work with them on dot.kde.org."

Comments

KPhone?

[mahesh_gharat]

Checking their product names in recent history they will name it as KPhone.

Why do all this free work for ONE company?

[idlake]

The way the Qt/KDE relationship is structured, all this work porting KDE components to Troll Tech's platforms adds value primarily to the product from one company: Troll Tech.

Assume Troll Tech's products are as good as people working with them say they are and that they should take over the world. What would we end up with? A single company monopolizing the commercial GUI development space, plus lots of people contributing free labor. How is that different from what we get with Microsoft? As far as I'm concerned, dual licenses are bad because they inhibit competition. All contributors to an open source project should work on equal footing.

Fortunately, enough people seem to have figured this out so that there are plenty of alternatives and that Troll Tech isn't taking over the world. But people who do contribute free labor to Troll Tech should reflect on what they are doing and why they are doing it.

Re:Why do all this free work for ONE company?

[idlake]

QT is GPL'd you are free to fork at any time,

Yes, but not under the same conditions as Troll Tech; Troll Tech still retains the right to sell it under non-GPL'ed licenses.

This horse has been beaten to death several times before, either you are trolling or simply very ignorant.

All the more sad that people like you still don't get it.