It seems to me there is a real risk in Trolltech's going public that another larger company with objectives that are not really compatible with open source could buy a controlling stake in Trolltech and then be in a position to implement a number of closed-source strategies which might include making Qt closed-source, making the Qt development tools closed source, or even ending all Qt development. I belive there are legal agreements with some of the KDE folk that prevent this happening.
The worst that could happen would be for future versions to be closed source but the opensource community could continue to build on the current versions.
Just forget domain names altogether!
an IP address is much more compact and concise. we can all remeber 7+ digit phone numbers so whats the problem with remembering 32 bits...
oh wait.... IPV6... Noooooooooo!
Transmeta must follow the example of another IP only company SCO and begin claiming ownership of everything and sueing everying in site before they run out of cash
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It seems to me there is a real risk in Trolltech's going public that another larger company with objectives that are not really compatible with open source could buy a controlling stake in Trolltech and then be in a position to implement a number of closed-source strategies which might include making Qt closed-source, making the Qt development tools closed source, or even ending all Qt development.
I belive there are legal agreements with some of the KDE folk that prevent this happening.
The worst that could happen would be for future versions to be closed source but the opensource community could continue to build on the current versions.
Chicken or duck eggs
nope,
swallow eggs but were they contained in an African or European swallow at the time of throwing?
ledgiable text! every try to reed an engineers scribbles?
Just forget domain names altogether! an IP address is much more compact and concise. we can all remeber 7+ digit phone numbers so whats the problem with remembering 32 bits... oh wait.... IPV6... Noooooooooo!
Phack its the last issue for phrack!
Transmeta must follow the example of another IP only company SCO and begin claiming ownership of everything and sueing everying in site before they run out of cash