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Qt Opens Source Code Repositories

Posted by timothy on from the good-news-on-a-few-fronts dept.

sobral writes "Following the announcement of the LGPL license model, since yesterday the Qt source code repositories are open to the public together with their roadmap. The contribution model is online and will enable developers from the community to submit patches through a single click process, avoiding the previous hassle of sending in signed paperwork. The code is hosted at qt.gitorious.org and an instant benefit of this launch is that Qt Software has been working together with Gitorious maintainers for the last four months to improve Gitorious and all these new features are already submitted upstream."

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  1. Should be a followup, actually by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Sales of Linux netbooks collapsed. Google is providing a standardized UI on top of Linux. Symbian is dead. Basically, there is very little need for a specialized UI toolkit like Qt now that there are both fewer platforms for it to run and more mature competitors on the remaining platforms.

    Sayonara, Qt. Hope you beat Gnome on the desktop!

  2. Die to unify by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The only complain developers had with QT/KDE was that it was not LGPL. It was one of the main reasons behind creation of horrible GNOME/GTK. Now lets hope that god awful GTK dies and opens-source developers embrace QT resulting in unification of open-source GUI.

    Amen..

  3. Re:QT Looks Like Shit by FictionPimp · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Now all that is needed is a decent version of KDE for ubuntu.