Some commentary on the new Openmoko direction, and a review of FSO

[Wolfgang Spraul]

> The is technically wrong. Trolltech had already done the 'porting to  
> X'
> work as an experiment/internal demo.

Correct.
Lorn, let's not argue over who deserves more credit. Of course first  
of all Trolltech developed Qt, then Qtopia. Then you did the  
experimental port to X but did not finish it because there was no  
paying licensee asking for it.
Which makes sense since most licensees only want one graphical toolkit  
so running on framebuffer makes perfect sense to them.
We at Openmoko love the flexibility of X, we believe in the long run  
many interesting things will be possible because of X.

Wolfgang

On Aug 8, 2008, at 2:03 AM, Lorn Potter wrote:

> Wolfgang Spraul wrote:
>> Dear Kevin,
>> thanks for writing your review, for us at Openmoko nothing is better
>> than a genuine reality check from outside.
>> Executive summary first: I understand that we have not done a very
>> good job at communicating our software strategy, and I accept
>> responsibility for that.
>>
>> In detail, let me go through some of your comments:
>>
>> ---1
>>> The ASU was a proof-of-concept image that combined Qtopia,
>> Enlightenment and GTK
>>
>> I would say it's more than proof-of-concept. When Qtopia became fully
>> GPL in November last year, we looked at it technically. Trolltech
>> published great binary images for the Neo 1973 but we couldn't
>> immediately use them because Qtopia ran on the framebuffer not on X,
>> and we did not want to give up GTK+. By February, we had come to the
>> conclusion that porting Qtopia onto X, retaining GTK+ support, would
>> be technically feasible for Openmoko.
>
> The is technically wrong. Trolltech had already done the 'porting to  
> X'
> work as an experiment/internal demo.
>
>
>
> -- 
> Lorn 'ljp' Potter
> Software Engineer, Systems Group, Trolltech, a Nokia company
>
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