You're preaching to the choir. Rest in peace Nokia Meego, and it's replacement, Windows Phone. It never even ran on a zune!
I bet you Qt could run on a zune. > Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2018 at 4:03 PM > From: "Roland Hughes" <rol...@logikalsolutions.com> > To: interest@qt-project.org > Subject: Re: [Interest] When Microsoft comes to purchase Qt what will, be the > outcome? > > > On 9/26/18 4:41 AM, Thiago Macieira wrote: > > The "poison pill" of the KDE Free Qt Foundation kicks in if there are > > commercial releases with no equivalent open source within 12 months of that > > release. It does not kick in if the maintainer community decides to drop > > some > > platforms. > > > > For the latter, there's always the ability to fork. If anyone disagrees with > > the direction Qt (or any other Open Source project, for that matter) is > > going, > > fork it and maintain it the way you want it to go (after, of course, trying > > to > > engage the community to argue your case). > > > Microsoft has a phenomenal track record of running both companies and > products into the ground. They also have an incredibly long history of > failures people rather conveniently forget about. Here is my all time > favorite Malcolm Berko quote: > > ===== > > Microsoft (MSFT-$58) may be making a dreadful boo-boo with its > $196-per-share purchase of LinkedIn (LNKD-$192), which since 2011 has > dumbly traded between $56 and $275 and never earned a dime. MSFT's new > CEO, Satya Nadella, will be the old CEO if this LNKD acquisition fails > as I and some important insiders think it will. Nadella believes that > adding a professional social network to its business-focused software > line will allow MSFT to wean itself from its legacy of personal > computers. LNKD, with zero earnings prospects in sight, isn't a bargain > at $26 billion; rather, it's an expensive and seemingly frantic gamble. > And MSFT has a really stinky record with takeovers and buyouts. Its > purchase of Nokia's handsets quickly morphed into a $7.5 billion > write-off. Microsoft bought Yammer for $1.2 billion, which turned into a > black hole, and then put $605 million into Barnes & Noble's Nook > e-reader, which flopped, and its Skype purchase is an embarrassing > failure. MSFT paid $6.3 billion for aQuantive, an online advertising > company that's worthless. MSFT bought Visio for $1.4 billion, Navision > for $1.5 billion and Tellme Networks for $800 million, and they're all > worthless. During Steve Ballmer's tenure, MSFT bought 149 companies, and > 121 of them have vaporized into the ether. No wonder Ballmer is bald. > > ===== > > I come from the DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) world. I have > watched Microsoft try to kill other, far superior, products off before. > I've lived through the history where Compaq, fronted/funded/financially > backed by Microsoft bought DEC then announced they were killing OpenVMS > so Compaq servers with NT on them could get into the data center. I was > also around to hear the stories about the day various DoD/NSA personnel > paid an unexpected visit informing upper management that killing off the > OS which ran a huge portion of the defense industry, not to mention most > nuclear power plants, was an act of treason and that they would be > spending the rest of their lives in solitary per the terms of the contract. > > Most of you will be too young to remember when Microsoft offered to > "give" Novell "Microsoft Money" so they could buy Quicken. The courts > struck it down. At the time Quicken was rumored to be written with ZAF > (Zinc Application Framework) and a non-Microsoft compiler. It worked > better and ran faster than "Money." You will have to learn about "Money" > on Wikipedia as it doesn't exist anymore. > > I won't even bother going into Janet Reno (at the behest of the > Clintons) committing treason against the human species not putting Bill > Gates in Prison > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp. > > Windows, all the way up to and including 98, was NOT an operating > system. It was a task switching GUI ran on top of DOS. Advertising it as > an operating system was both wire and mail fraud. > > Microsoft doesn't like "other successful software." Qt hasn't been > successful enough for Microsoft to divert as much attention. They only > tried to shove Qt out of the phone market by purchasing Nokia and making > them use only Microsoft products. > > No, Microsoft will not need to buy Qt. The current owners of Qt will > force it from the market with their current (and probably future) > licensing policies. > > > As to forking, there are already hundreds of forks of Qt. Basically at > every medical device manufacturer which used 3.x or 4.x to build one or > more devices. They have had no choice but to fork and maintain because > developers would rather add something broken than fix the last broken > thing to get added. > > > > -- > Roland Hughes, President > Logikal Solutions > (630) 205-1593 > > http://www.theminimumyouneedtoknow.com > http://www.infiniteexposure.net > http://www.johnsmith-book.com > http://www.logikalblog.com > http://www.interestingauthors.com/blog > http://lesedi.us > > _______________________________________________ > Interest mailing list > Interest@qt-project.org > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest > _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
