Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

["Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak gnome org>]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com> wrote:
> hi;
>
> On 16 September 2014 14:22, Sébastien Wilmet <swilmet gnome org> wrote:
>
> > Philip said for example:
>
> Philip has scarcely any idea about any of this stuff, as he already
> demonstrated plenty of times, couple with an overinflated sense of his
> importance and contributions.
>
> > <pvanhoof> My issue with gnome is that it wants to hate trying to help the
> >            (european) commercial world
> > <pvanhoof> gtk+ didn't really help the maemo-gtk+ stuff
> > <pvanhoof> That as a result meant that meego-harmattan got qt based
> > <pvanhoof> That's history, of course. But we did try hard to convince people at
> >            redhat like mclasen of the necessity to cooperate with nokia back then
> > <pvanhoof> Yes we did
>
> that's, quite frankly, a fairly sizable pile of bull.
>
> Philip has absolutely no clue whatsoever about most of the decisions
> that went behind the transitions from Maemo to Qt.

As a person who was a full-time employee at Maemo during that time, I
can testify to that. *If* there was any technical reasons (there
weren't really), it was C vs. C++. The most important fact to keep in
mind here is that decision to go for Qt was not made by Maemo side of
Nokia. Keeping that in mind, I don't see any exaggeration in
Emmanuele's statement above.

-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
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