"A few months ago, the GNOME Mobile Platform was announced to the public. One of the main forces behind the launch of this initiative was Nokia, which uses a lot of GNOME-components in its Linux-based Internet Tablets Nokia 770 and N800. During this years GUADEC Andreas Proschofsky had the chance to sit down with Carlos Guerreiro, Nokias Manager for Open Source Software, to talk - amidst other things - about the not so different needs of personal computers and mobile devices, about the necessity for GTK+ 3.0 and the impact of the iPhone launch."
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Member since:2005-07-06
Yes, the initial investment in creating a GTK+ based stack is obviously higher, but considering that they have the right to modify and even resell that stack, at no cost to them, indefinitely into the future, and the fact that they have absolute control over that stack, I can see why a company like Nokia--which likes custom, self-built solutions--would choose GTK over Qt, despite some technical limitations.
Member since:2005-07-06
Yes, the initial investment in creating a GTK+ based stack is obviously higher, but considering that they have the right to modify and even resell that stack, at no cost to them, indefinitely into the future and the fact that they have absolute control over that stack...
Just how and why are they going to do that?
What you're basically saying there is that Nokia can go and maintain GTK. That's just far too expensive to do, and pretty daft, and they've shown no indication at all that they're going to do anything other than complain about GTK.
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2005-07-06
It seems to me that their main reason for creating Maemo was that they didn't want to pay Qt royalties.
Well, like Sun, they've never came out and said that was a reason for using GTK and Gnome.
I doubt that's going to change anytime soon; they're more likely to hire more developers in the short term to create their own fork of GTK than face the prospect of paying Qt royalties indefinitely.
Interesting, and quite funny, economics you employ there. So Nokia are going to spend hundreds of thousands on developer salaries and resources to boost GTK and their development platform, whilst also spending money and resources on developers to create applications from that infrastructure, versus spending a few thousand on Qt licenses and only salaries for application developers?
If they GPL their software then there are no Qt license fees.
Edited 2007-08-13 16:00