Star Interview: Mark Shuttleworth
Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Wed 16th Jul 2008 22:30 UTC, submitted by computerishcat
Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, recently did an interview with derStandard in which he discussed issues with Ubuntu's latest release, innovation, the future of GNOME, and other subjects. Perhaps the most interesting thing he said is that Linux does not yet deliver "a good enough user experience." Of course, you could say that of any operating system. Editor's Note: QT-based Gnome was also an interesting point-of-view.
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RE: Comment by netdur
by lemur2 on Fri 18th Jul 2008 12:16 UTC in reply to "Comment by netdur"
lemur2
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[This is something very important] KDE, the biggest user of Qt, are lucky to get if for free, but they have no control over the direction of Qt, they are under the mercy of Nokia's business strategy. Why would GNOME get itself in such a trap?


Qt is licensed under GPL v3.

If Nokia decided to take Qt in a direction that was unsuitable for KDE, KDE could just fork the code and call it something else (say, for argument's sake ... cutie) and carry on.

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