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You have claimed that most of the funding for KDE's development comes from Nokia specifically. You have not convinced me.
Well, if that make you happy, one of Nokia employees / that guys sponsored by Qt Software at Nokia, who work full-time into KDE Core Team, is David Faure.
Yes you did. It's entirely possible for Trolltech to continue to sponsor him even if Nokia bows out.
Let's go back in time.
It was once, a company called Trolltech, who wrote and sell the libraries called Qt.
One day, the bad guys at Nokia have paid a disgusting amount of money, and they bought Trolltech, what is now a division of Nokia, nothing more, and it's called Qt Software.
Q: Who pays Mr. Seigo?
Last edited by Darth Vader; 04-04-2011 at 01:31 PM.
Trolltech, of course. That's what it says on his paychecks and on both company's record books. Which company produced Wall-E?
You have claimed that that all the money for KDE development comes from Nokia. You have listed two developers (out of a pool of far more than that) who are sponsored by either Nokia or its subsidiaries and said "should I stop there?". If you want to prove your point, then post a table showing the entire KDE core team and the sponsor of each member.
I don't believe Trolltech exists anymore (at least as a name) since it has been folded into Nokia. In any case, for what it's worth, here are the patrons of KDE: http://ev.kde.org/supporting-members.php.
What I don't know/understand is what benefit Nokia sees in supporting KDE other than promoting the use of Qt.
What I don't know/understand is what benefit Nokia sees in supporting KDE other than promoting the use of Qt.
A speculation would be that Nokia would have attempted to provide, through KDE4, an alternative to the Windows desktop.
There are a lot of fans of WindowsXP. A complete desktop with lots of nice effects and Qt4 imposing a in-facto standard for Windows applications should have been an appealing prospect ...
PS. If it seems surprising, in principle we can configure Windows XP to use KDE4 as desktop shell, although it can turn into a console system, which uses only the CMD.
Last edited by Darth Vader; 04-04-2011 at 02:06 PM.
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