That evil Q lib
What should one do if someone spreads FUD about a part of open source. Lets try the "why?" question. So one bashes qt on #maemo, channel for this GTK based platform used by the N770. Names are mangled if not me.
<kalos> Anyone know if the Skype Debian package will work on Maemo? <nomas> kalos: unlikely. <koel> isn't that using that evil Q lib? <nomas> koel: yeah that probably as well. <koos> koel: why is Q lib evil? <nomas> does qt still need its proprietary preprocessor? <koos> nomas: AFAIK qt preprocessor moc is dual licenced, one of them GPL <nomas> koos: by "proprietary" I mean "no one else uses it" in this case... :) <koos> nomas: proprietary is a bad choosen word then :) <thoughtfax> koos: "unique" is better <koos> nomas: wrt to OSS <koos> nomas: of course moc is for qt based sources only (I'm sure that a newly designed lib would use libsig++ now) * koel|770/#maemo is happy with his qt-free zaurus <nomas> koos: yeah, I am just not a very big fan of nonstandard language extensions. <nomas> (maybe related to the fact that I work at the programming languages department of our university :)
And the guy doesn't want to answer, but someone else does. Wow, I'm impressed. This FUD-ware annoys me a lot. But I see it too on dot.kde.org about eg. glib. Please stop this nonsense, accept different tastes, different choices. Yes there are good reasons why there isn't a libqt-mt on N770, same for wxwindows etc. But there is no need to disrespect fellow OS-developers. Long live our freedom!