Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-30 Thread Konrad Rosenbaum
Hi, On Wednesday 29 August 2012 16:24:44 chuck.pier...@nokia.com wrote: > Is there an interest on this list in learning about the business > implications of going LGPL using the Trolltech example? Yes, I think this would be very helpful to quite a few of us. License discussions happen quite ofte

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-30 Thread Calogero Mauceri
...@nokia.com; charleyb...@gmail.com; bm_witn...@yahoo.com *Cc:* interest@qt-project.org *Subject:* Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia I'd be curious. It seems to me that that strategy would see use go up, then some time later commercial licensing would pick up, as the barrier to entry came

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-29 Thread Mike Short
: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia I'd be curious. It seems to me that that strategy would see use go up, then some time later commercial licensing would pick up, as the barrier to entry came down, and user bases were established which required support, which in turn enabled comme

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-29 Thread Jason H
enses. From: "chuck.pier...@nokia.com" To: charleyb...@gmail.com; bm_witn...@yahoo.com Cc: interest@qt-project.org Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 10:24 AM Subject: Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia Hi,   Is there an interest on this list in learning abo

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-29 Thread chuck.piercey
Hi, Is there an interest on this list in learning about the business implications of going LGPL using the Trolltech example? Trolltech's acquisition by Nokia allowed it to add the LGPL license option and then continue conducting business for the next 3 years. If you look at the aggregate busin

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-16 Thread André Somers
Op 16-8-2012 14:00, Thiago Macieira schreef: > On quinta-feira, 16 de agosto de 2012 07.12.23, Atlant Schmidt wrote: >>Please don't distort my argument. My argument, boiled down, >>is that switching to any open-source licensing approach >>destroys the owner's direct value in a software

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-16 Thread Thiago Macieira
On quinta-feira, 16 de agosto de 2012 07.12.23, Atlant Schmidt wrote: > Please don't distort my argument. My argument, boiled down, > is that switching to any open-source licensing approach > destroys the owner's direct value in a software property. > I don't argue whether that's GPL, LGPL,

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-16 Thread Atlant Schmidt
n Qt; there's no "would have" about it.) Atlant -Original Message- From: interest-bounces+aschmidt=dekaresearch@qt-project.org [mailto:interest-bounces+aschmidt=dekaresearch@qt-project.org] On Behalf Of Sascha Cunz Sent: Wednesday

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-16 Thread Konstantin Tokarev
16.08.2012, 01:21, "Sascha Cunz" : > On Wednesday, August 15, 2012 08:06:08 AM Atlant Schmidt wrote: >>    Unfortunately, as has already been mentioned by several >>    other folks, the fact that a given piece of software is >>    licensed under the terms of the (L)GPL is a huge factor >>    argu

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-15 Thread Sascha Cunz
On Wednesday, August 15, 2012 08:06:08 AM Atlant Schmidt wrote: Atlant: > And the "indirect sales value" matters not a > whit to the owner of the software (or the > shareholders of the owner) unless the owner > is actively reaping a significant fraction > of that "indirect sales value" (w

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-15 Thread Karl Ruetz
Hey now. I'm not "paranoid" or "idiotic", just lazy enough to be willing to pay for a commercial license so I don't have to worry about staying LGPL compliant. Karl On 2012-08-15 08:12, Konrad Rosenbaum wrote: > You are missing my point: there are only a few areas where you can't use > (L

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-15 Thread Konrad Rosenbaum
On Wednesday 15 August 2012 14:06:08 you wrote: > Konrad: > > Wrong: it decreases the direct sales value, but > > hugely increases the use value and with that the > > indirect sales value. > > And the "indirect sales value" matters not a > whit to the owner of the software (or the > sharehol

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-15 Thread Rui Maciel
On 08/15/2012 01:06 PM, Atlant Schmidt wrote: > Konrad: > >> Wrong: it decreases the direct sales value, but >> hugely increases the use value and with that the >> indirect sales value. > >And the "indirect sales value" matters not a >whit to the owner of the software (or the >sharehold

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-15 Thread R. Reucher
On Wednesday 15 August 2012 14:06:08 Atlant Schmidt wrote: > I'm sorry; the FOSS folks have argued for years > that they have a workable financial model but > I see no evidence that this is true for anything > other than individuals and relatively small-scale > commercial operations. Well

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-15 Thread Atlant Schmidt
is, and the like. Atlant -Original Message- From: interest-bounces+aschmidt=dekaresearch@qt-project.org [mailto:interest-bounces+aschmidt=dekaresearch@qt-project.org] On Behalf Of Konrad Rosenbaum Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 5:02 AM To: interest@qt-project

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-15 Thread Konrad Rosenbaum
Hi, On Tuesday 14 August 2012 17:47:37 Atlant Schmidt wrote: > Chuck: > > Adding LGPL as a license option had an enormous impact on > > the commercial business but it also grew the number of users > > by an order of magnitude over the same time period. > > But all of those new LGPL users were *

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-14 Thread Thiago Macieira
On terça-feira, 14 de agosto de 2012 10.08.12, Karl Ruetz wrote: > As Obtuse as it might sound, for my company, it's worth the cost of > the commercial license just so we don't have to tip toe around all the > LPGL conditions and exceptions. And this is the reason why I support the commercial lice

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-14 Thread Karl Ruetz
As Obtuse as it might sound, for my company, it's worth the cost of the commercial license just so we don't have to tip toe around all the LPGL conditions and exceptions. We have found Digia to be very reliable and responsive and, for now, we are very optimistic about Digia's future with Qt.

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-14 Thread Thiago Macieira
On terça-feira, 14 de agosto de 2012 11.47.37, Atlant Schmidt wrote: > An enormous-but-non-paying user base still supports > my argument that going FOSS decreases the commercial > value of a software property. Only if you think in direct and restrict terms of "cash flow generated from sale o

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-14 Thread Thiago Macieira
On terça-feira, 14 de agosto de 2012 11.44.54, Atlant Schmidt wrote: > You don't find these paragraphs from LGPL 2.1, if not ambiguous, > at least "interesting"? Don't forget an important detail: Qt isn't licensed "pure" LGPL 2.1. It's licensed LGPL 2.1 + exception: Nokia Qt LGPL Exception ve

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-14 Thread Charley Bay
> > >> most of the commercial licensees are sticking with the commercial > license > > because of the ambiguity > >> with the LGPL and how to apply it; and the fact that while Nokia did do > > that, they have not provided any > >> clarity to its use. > > > > ... while developers of proprietary s

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-14 Thread chuck.piercey
rg Subject: Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia -- Shriramana Sharma ___ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-14 Thread Atlant Schmidt
t-bounces+aschmidt=dekaresearch@qt-project.org] On Behalf Of chuck.pier...@nokia.com Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 11:24 AM To: scott.bl...@onshorecs.com; bm_witn...@yahoo.com; interest@qt-project.org Subject: Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia Adding LGPL as a license opti

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-14 Thread Atlant Schmidt
m: interest-bounces+aschmidt=dekaresearch@qt-project.org [mailto:interest-bounces+aschmidt=dekaresearch@qt-project.org] On Behalf Of André Somers Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 11:12 AM To: interest@qt-project.org Subject: Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia Op 14-8-2012 17:06, BR

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-14 Thread Scott Aron Bloom
Subject: Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 8:53 PM, wrote: > Adding LGPL as a license option had an enormous impact on the commercial business but it also grew the number of users by an order of magnitude over the same time period. So IMHO even though one

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-14 Thread Shriramana Sharma
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 8:53 PM, wrote: > Adding LGPL as a license option had an enormous impact on the commercial > business but it also grew the number of users by an order of magnitude over > the same time period. So IMHO even though one may think Nokia didn't take proper care of Qt, one bi

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-14 Thread Shriramana Sharma
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 8:36 PM, BRM wrote: > > Some may yes, but I think the general ambiguity left by the LGPL requirements > still pushes most towards commercial licenses. IANAL but I'm not sure what ambiguity is there to the LGPL. It is probably just plain FUD working there. So effectively t

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-14 Thread chuck.piercey
@qt-project.org [mailto:interest-bounces+chuck.piercey=nokia@qt-project.org] On Behalf Of ext Scott Aron Bloom Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 8:19 AM To: BRM; interest@qt-project.org Subject: Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia > To: BRM > Subject: Re: [Interest] Digia to a

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-14 Thread Scott Aron Bloom
> To: BRM > Subject: Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia 14.08.2012, > 18:50, "BRM" : >> most of the commercial licensees are sticking with the commercial >> license > because of the ambiguity >> with the LGPL and how to apply it; and the

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-14 Thread André Somers
Op 14-8-2012 17:06, BRM schreef: >> To: BRM >> Subject: Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia >> 14.08.2012, 18:50, "BRM" : >>> most of the commercial licensees are sticking with the commercial license >> because of the ambiguity >>&g

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-14 Thread BRM
> To: BRM > Subject: Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia > 14.08.2012, 18:50, "BRM" : >> most of the commercial licensees are sticking with the commercial license > because of the ambiguity >> with the LGPL and how to apply it; and the fact that whi

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-14 Thread Konstantin Tokarev
14.08.2012, 18:50, "BRM" : > most of the commercial licensees are sticking with the commercial license > because of the ambiguity > with the LGPL and how to apply it; and the fact that while Nokia did do that, > they have not provided any > clarity to its use. ... while developers of proprieta

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-14 Thread BRM
> From: André Somers > To: interest@qt-project.org > Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 10:31 AM > Subject: Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia > > Op 14-8-2012 16:19, Rui Maciel schreef: >> On 08/14/2012 03:08 PM, Atlant Schmidt wrote: >>>     And I

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-14 Thread André Somers
Op 14-8-2012 16:19, Rui Maciel schreef: > On 08/14/2012 03:08 PM, Atlant Schmidt wrote: >> And I never said it did. I simply said that Nokia >> destroyed all (+/-) of their own investment in >> Trolltech, perhaps as a result of driving Qt into >> (further into?) FOSS territory. > Ho

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-14 Thread Rui Maciel
On 08/14/2012 03:08 PM, Atlant Schmidt wrote: >And I never said it did. I simply said that Nokia >destroyed all (+/-) of their own investment in >Trolltech, perhaps as a result of driving Qt into >(further into?) FOSS territory. How could anyone drive Qt into FOSS territory when it

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-14 Thread Atlant Schmidt
rom: BRM [mailto:bm_witn...@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 10:04 AM To: Atlant Schmidt; interest@qt-project.org Subject: Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia > From: Atlant Schmidt > To: 'Bob Hood' ; "interest@qt-project.org" > > Sent: Tuesda

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-14 Thread BRM
> From: Atlant Schmidt > To: 'Bob Hood' ; "interest@qt-project.org" > > Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 9:00 AM > Subject: Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia >> Wait a sec... wasn't that because Nokia bought a highly valuable >>

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-14 Thread Atlant Schmidt
org] On Behalf Of Bob Hood Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 4:57 PM To: interest@qt-project.org Subject: Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia On 8/13/2012 9:30 AM, Till Oliver Knoll wrote: > Am 13.08.2012 um 16:00 schrieb Atlant Schmidt : > >> ... >> And this is what Nokia has

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-13 Thread Bob Hood
On 8/13/2012 9:30 AM, Till Oliver Knoll wrote: > Am 13.08.2012 um 16:00 schrieb Atlant Schmidt : > >> ... >> And this is what Nokia has just done; in the course >> of just four years, they destroyed essentially all >> of their investors' capital that was invested in >> acquiring Trolltech. > >

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-13 Thread Till Oliver Knoll
Am 13.08.2012 um 16:00 schrieb Atlant Schmidt : > ... > And this is what Nokia has just done; in the course > of just four years, they destroyed essentially all > of their investors' capital that was invested in > acquiring Trolltech. Wait a sec... wasn't that because Nokia bought a highly va

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-13 Thread Thiago Macieira
On segunda-feira, 13 de agosto de 2012 15.28.35, Rui Maciel wrote: > On 08/13/2012 03:14 PM, Thiago Macieira wrote: > > So, in all, you*may* be right that giving a product under a freer licence > > lowers its monetary value -- it's intuitive. > > That is also debatable. For example, Red Hat manag

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-13 Thread Rui Maciel
On 08/13/2012 03:14 PM, Thiago Macieira wrote: > So, in all, you*may* be right that giving a product under a freer licence > lowers its monetary value -- it's intuitive. That is also debatable. For example, Red Hat manages to pull an annual revenue of around 1 billion dollars while giving away

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-13 Thread R. Reucher
On Monday 13 August 2012 16:00:25 Atlant Schmidt wrote: > But the original owner of a proprietary software > product who then takes it "open sourced" seems to > invariable take a bath, flushing essentially all > of their investment in that product down the drain. > And this is what Nokia

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-13 Thread Thiago Macieira
On segunda-feira, 13 de agosto de 2012 10.00.25, Atlant Schmidt wrote: > But the original owner of a proprietary software > product who then takes it "open sourced" seems to > invariable take a bath, flushing essentially all > of their investment in that product down the drain. > And this

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-13 Thread Rui Maciel
On 08/13/2012 03:00 PM, Atlant Schmidt wrote: >But the original owner of a proprietary software >product who then takes it "open sourced" seems to >invariable take a bath, flushing essentially all >of their investment in that product down the drain. >And this is what Nokia has j

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-13 Thread Atlant Schmidt
..@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 9:54 AM To: Atlant Schmidt; interest@qt-project.org Subject: Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia > From: Atlant Schmidt > Subject: RE: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia > BRM: >> And that's hogwash. > > Okay,

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-13 Thread BRM
> From: Atlant Schmidt > Subject: RE: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia > BRM: >> And that's hogwash. > >   Okay, I'll make my statement more clear: > >   "Still, this may serve as an indication that once a company >   converts a

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-13 Thread Atlant Schmidt
icrosystems also proved this when they open-sourced Solaris. Do you have a counter-example? Atlant -Original Message- From: BRM [mailto:bm_witn...@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 9:30 AM To: Atlant Schmidt; interest@qt-project.org Subject: Re: [I

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-13 Thread BRM
> From: Atlant Schmidt >  Still, this may serve as an indication that once a company >  converts a piece of closed-source software to open-sourced >  software, that company has effectively thrown away most of >  the *MONETARY* value of that software. And that's hogwash. What's the *MONETARY* v

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-13 Thread Atlant Schmidt
012 8:22 AM To: interest@qt-project.org Subject: Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia On segunda-feira, 13 de agosto de 2012 07.57.48, Atlant Schmidt wrote: > All: > > Apparently, the price Digia paid for the rest of Qt was > EUR4m (US$4.9m). > > That's quite a

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-13 Thread Bo Thorsen
Den 13-08-2012 13:57, Atlant Schmidt skrev: >Apparently, the price Digia paid for the rest of Qt was >EUR4m (US$4.9m). > >That's quite a mark-down from the US$150m Nokia paid to >buy Trolltech in 2008! > > http://www.financial-news.co.uk/6900/2012/08/finnish-handset-maker-nokia-exit

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-13 Thread Thiago Macieira
On segunda-feira, 13 de agosto de 2012 07.57.48, Atlant Schmidt wrote: > All: > > Apparently, the price Digia paid for the rest of Qt was > EUR4m (US$4.9m). > > That's quite a mark-down from the US$150m Nokia paid to > buy Trolltech in 2008! > >Atlant

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-13 Thread Atlant Schmidt
e.org; interest@qt-project.org Subject: Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia On 9 August 2012 22:08, Richard Moore [r...@kde.org] wrote: >On 9 August 2012 12:52, Lorn Potter wrote: >> They are part of this. 3 tons of CI servers are heading north in the coming >> weeks/mont

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-12 Thread jason.mcdonald
On 9 August 2012 22:08, Richard Moore [r...@kde.org] wrote: >On 9 August 2012 12:52, Lorn Potter wrote: >> They are part of this. 3 tons of CI servers are heading north in the coming >> weeks/months. > >Are Rohan and Jason in the crate too? Nobody from Digia has approached me so far, but I'm ope

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-10 Thread Loaden
Best news! +best wishes!! 2012/8/9 Eric Landuyt > Hello , > > seems like a very good news: > > http://www.digia.com/en/Home/Company/News/Digia-to-acquire-Qt-from-Nokia/ > > -- > Eric Landuyt, Developer - mailto:e...@datarescue.be > DataRescue sa/nv - http://www.datarescue.com > > ___

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-09 Thread Ben Lau
Yeah!! The best news for Qt in this year! On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Eric Landuyt wrote: > Hello , > > seems like a very good news: > > http://www.digia.com/en/Home/Company/News/Digia-to-acquire-Qt-from-Nokia/ > > -- > Eric Landuyt, Developer - mailto:e...@datarescue.be > DataRescue sa/

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-09 Thread Arnold Krille
On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 12:10:44 +0200 André Somers wrote: > Op 9-8-2012 10:42, Thiago Macieira schreef: > > On quinta-feira, 9 de agosto de 2012 11.24.37, Sivan Greenberg > > wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Thiago Macieira > >> wrote: > >>> It's too bad that they couldn't take over the

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-09 Thread Luis Valdés
Great News!!! Best Wishes!!! 2012/8/9 Stefan Walter > Am 09.08.2012 um 21:49 schrieb "BRM " < > bm_witn...@yahoo.com>: > > >> From: Lorn Potter > > > >> To: Till Oliver Knoll > >> Cc: Qt Project > >> Sent: Thursday, Augu

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-09 Thread Stefan Walter
Am 09.08.2012 um 21:49 schrieb "BRM " : >> From: Lorn Potter > >> To: Till Oliver Knoll >> Cc: Qt Project >> Sent: Thursday, August 9, 2012 7:54 AM >> Subject: Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia >> >> >> On 09/

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-09 Thread Jason H
] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia > From: Lorn Potter > To: Till Oliver Knoll > Cc: Qt Project > Sent: Thursday, August 9, 2012 7:54 AM > Subject: Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia > > > On 09/08/2012, at 6:49 PM, Till Oliver Knoll > wrote: > >>

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-09 Thread BRM
> From: Lorn Potter > To: Till Oliver Knoll > Cc: Qt Project > Sent: Thursday, August 9, 2012 7:54 AM > Subject: Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia > > > On 09/08/2012, at 6:49 PM, Till Oliver Knoll > wrote: > >> Am 09.08.2012 um 08:31 s

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-09 Thread Harish Surana
Digia you have won respect of mine. I salute you. Best of luck. On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 7:23 PM, d3fault wrote: > Bricks = shat. Seriously, this is better than christmas. > I love you Digia. > > Qt will quadruple in size once it's targetting Android/iOS (paying extra > is the norm for Apple fans,

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-09 Thread d3fault
Bricks = shat. Seriously, this is better than christmas. I love you Digia. Qt will quadruple in size once it's targetting Android/iOS (paying extra is the norm for Apple fans, so needing a commercial license to release on the iOS app store will be shrugged off as just another expense). d3fault __

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-09 Thread Richard Moore
On 9 August 2012 12:52, Lorn Potter wrote: > They are part of this. 3 tons of CI servers are heading north in the coming > weeks/months. Are Rohan and Jason in the crate too? Rich. ___ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-proj

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-09 Thread R. Reucher
On Thursday 09 August 2012 13:52:55 Lorn Potter wrote: > On 09/08/2012, at 7:00 PM, "R. Reucher" wrote: > > On Thursday 09 August 2012 10:49:49 Till Oliver Knoll wrote: > > > Hooray! The spirit of Trolltech is back :) > > > > Yeah, really sounds as if :)! > > > > I'm very pleased to read all thi

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-09 Thread Lorn Potter
On 09/08/2012, at 6:49 PM, Till Oliver Knoll wrote: > Am 09.08.2012 um 08:31 schrieb Eric Landuyt : > >> Hello , >> >> seems like a very good news: >> >> http://www.digia.com/en/Home/Company/News/Digia-to-acquire-Qt-from-Nokia/ > > "Digia plans to quickly enable Qt on Android, iOS and Windo

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-09 Thread Lorn Potter
On 09/08/2012, at 7:00 PM, "R. Reucher" wrote: > On Thursday 09 August 2012 10:49:49 Till Oliver Knoll wrote: > > Hooray! The spirit of Trolltech is back :) > Yeah, really sounds as if :)! > > I'm very pleased to read all this. > > Good luck, Digia, with this great decision! Still hoping that

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-09 Thread Atlant Schmidt
Eric Landuyt Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 2:31 AM To: interest@qt-project.org Cc: developm...@qt-project.org Subject: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia Hello , seems like a very good news: http://www.digia.com/en/Home/Company/News/Digia-to-acquire-Qt-from-Nokia/ -- Eric Landuy

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-09 Thread André Somers
Op 9-8-2012 13:39, gemfield schreef: > Will Digia hold Qt Developer Days 2012 ? ICS and KDAB are already organizing this year. André ___ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-09 Thread Sivan Greenberg
Make sure to make Qt desktop components very /high/ priority. The Qt meetup I organized in Tel Aviv 2 days ago really cried out the need for that. -Sivan On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Till Oliver Knoll wrote: > Am 09.08.2012 um 08:31 schrieb Eric Landuyt : > >> Hello , >> >> seems like a very

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-09 Thread gemfield
Will Digia hold Qt Developer Days 2012 ? 在2012-08-09,Ramakanthreddy_Kesireddy 写道:-原始邮件- 发件人: Ramakanthreddy_Kesireddy 发送时间: 2012年8月9日 星期四 收件人: "R. Reucher" , "interest@qt-project.org" 主题: Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia I think Qt will beco

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-09 Thread André Somers
Op 9-8-2012 10:42, Thiago Macieira schreef: > On quinta-feira, 9 de agosto de 2012 11.24.37, Sivan Greenberg wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Thiago Macieira >> >> wrote: >>> It's too bad that they couldn't take over the Brisbane operations too. I >>> guess it's more of a logistical issu

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-09 Thread Ramakanthreddy_Kesireddy
+ramakanthreddy_kesireddy=mahindrasatyam@qt-project.org] On Behalf Of R. Reucher Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 2:30 PM To: interest@qt-project.org Subject: Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia On Thursday 09 August 2012 10:49:49 Till Oliver Knoll wrote: > Hooray! The spirit of Trollt

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-09 Thread R. Reucher
On Thursday 09 August 2012 10:49:49 Till Oliver Knoll wrote: > Hooray! The spirit of Trolltech is back :) Yeah, really sounds as if :)! I'm very pleased to read all this. Good luck, Digia, with this great decision! Still hoping that the Brisbane operations will somehow be part of this... though

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-09 Thread Till Oliver Knoll
Am 09.08.2012 um 08:31 schrieb Eric Landuyt : > Hello , > > seems like a very good news: > > http://www.digia.com/en/Home/Company/News/Digia-to-acquire-Qt-from-Nokia/ "Digia plans to quickly enable Qt on Android, iOS and Windows 8 platforms." and (for me) most important: "Digia’s targeted R&D

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-09 Thread Thiago Macieira
On quinta-feira, 9 de agosto de 2012 11.24.37, Sivan Greenberg wrote: > On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Thiago Macieira > > wrote: > > It's too bad that they couldn't take over the Brisbane operations too. I > > guess it's more of a logistical issue. > > I think that actually depends on the devel

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-09 Thread Sivan Greenberg
I guess this will clear out the following days, I'm also very interested (as I was very close to that in community and not) documentation- if they also adopt the doc people in Nokia documenting Qt. -Sivan On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 11:18 AM, wrote: >> Hi, From Digia: "...As part of the transaction

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-09 Thread wargand
> Hi, From Digia: "...As part of the transaction, a maximum of 125 Qt > people from Nokia will transfer to Digia,..." How many "Qt people > from Nokia" exist? Might be mean, but the correct questions is: How many Qt _developers_ from Nokia exist? Qt related business and support people are not un

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-09 Thread Sivan Greenberg
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Thiago Macieira wrote: > > It's too bad that they couldn't take over the Brisbane operations too. I guess > it's more of a logistical issue. > I think that actually depends on the development focus- perhaps if Digia are going to continue support Qt on mobiles (whi

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-09 Thread Thiago Macieira
On quinta-feira, 9 de agosto de 2012 09.09.51, Thomas Meyer wrote: > Hi, > From Digia: > "...As part of the transaction, a maximum of 125 Qt people from Nokia > will transfer to Digia,..." > How many "Qt people from Nokia" exist? I am *not* sure of actual numbers, so this is my personal estimatio

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-09 Thread Sivan Greenberg
Yes, this question is quite interesting indeed, and also the components of Qt that will still get funded development support as I suspect Digia won't be able to maintain it all? Let's hope for more good news after that, and a new dawn for our eco system. -Sivan On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 10:09 AM, T

Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-09 Thread Thomas Meyer
Hi, From Digia: "...As part of the transaction, a maximum of 125 Qt people from Nokia will transfer to Digia,..." How many "Qt people from Nokia" exist? Thomas Am 09.08.2012 08:31, schrieb Eric Landuyt: > Hello , > > seems like a very good news: > > http://www.digia.com/en/Home/Company/News/Di

[Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

2012-08-08 Thread Eric Landuyt
Hello , seems like a very good news: http://www.digia.com/en/Home/Company/News/Digia-to-acquire-Qt-from-Nokia/ -- Eric Landuyt, Developer - mailto:e...@datarescue.be DataRescue sa/nv - http://www.datarescue.com ___ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-pr