Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 21st May 2008 00:09 UTC, submitted by RJop
OpenMoko, the project that creates not only a Linux operating system for phones but the hardware to run it as well, has announced some major changes to its software stack. Traditionally a Gtk+ endeavour, this is all going to change rather drastically.
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If you want people writing software for your platform, that pretty much sucks, because you are alienating a large userbase that doesn't wish to publish their code under the GPL and has no intention in purchasing a Qt License.
That would be the common myth, but so far there really isn't any evidence for it. Maemo is built on GTK, yet there is not much (any?) 3rd party commercial development for it. Also, Qt allows you to use many free software licenses (BSD, Apache, etc) for your code even if you don't buy the commercial license.