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The national evaluation of the Weatherization Assistance Program is led by ORNL, with project management oversight by APPRISE, a Princeton-based nonprofit research firm. Since its inception in 1976, the Weatherization Assistance Program has supported the weatherization of more than 6.4 million low income households.
The Energy Center is coordinating the collection of data from state offices and local weatherization agencies, and leading technical studies that measure weatherization impacts on use of delivered fuels (fuel oil and propane), indoor air quality, air conditioning electricity use, as well as the persistence of energy savings from weatherization measures over time.
The Energy Center will repeat these data collection activities in 2012 as the second phase of the evaluation will measure program performance under ARRA. Although the ARRA-period production push of 2009 - 2011 is winding down, the weatherization network faces new challenges in the significant cutbacks in funding that have impacted state offices and local weatherization agencies. The relationships developed during the first phase will be key to collecting the data necessary to ensure robust results on program accomplishments during the ARRA period.
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R.S. Owens & Company, long-time manufacturers of Oscar statuettes, expects to lay off 95 employees on Dec. 17. The estimate was published in a report from the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity.
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One hour before they had hoped to present a plan, Democratic and Republican Senate leaders said they were still unable to reach a compromise that would stop the automatic tax hikes and spending cuts that could push the U.S. economy back into recession.
"There are still serious differences between the two sides," said Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid.
Progress still appeared possible after the two sides narrowed their differences on tax increases and Republicans indicated they would withdraw a contentious proposal to slow the growth of Social Security retirement benefits.
Failure to secure a deal would deliver a heavy blow to the U.S. economy just as it is showing signs of a quicker recovery. Planned tax increases and spending cuts would suck $600 billion out of the economy and again force up unemployment, which had shown signs of improving.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell talked several times to Vice President Joe Biden by phone in the hope of breaking the standstill. "I'm willing to get this done, but I need a dance partner," McConnell said.
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But there is work going on in the KDE community and I hope that we in
PF: You said that the business is not ready to receive it, that there is no
ME: Sure, but this is a game, this is an investment. Trolltech is, like Eirik
PF: What do you think of the Opie project and its relationship with Qtopia.
EE: We think it's a very good thing that there is Free Software project now,
It is again limited how much a company can do. This where the Open Source
We don't see competition since this is a Free Software project using Free
PF: Qtopia is based on Qt 2. Is it expected to move Qt 3? And if it does move
EE: Complicated question.
Of course one possibility, that Matthias is mentioning to me here, is isolation
One of the historical reason to keep Qt 2 for Qtopia is that many of our
Qtopia will more than probably integrate into the current version of Qt in
PF: Some people complained that some parts of Qtopia are not available
EE: It has to do with historical reasons and it has also has to do with the
PF: Was Zaurus a success? Did it sell well? Do you think there is there really
EE: Yes, I think definitely there is a big future for Linux on the PDA? Did
PF: Recently there was an announce about a big electronic consortium being
EE: We are in contact with them right now to see how we can cooperate. We
PF: There are many many free software projects trying to use Qt in different
ME: We have had contacts with some of the authors of bindings, so we support
Qt as API shines most with C++. Together with C++ the overall value of Qt is
Python has stuff to do network, server programming, to do I/O, XML. If you put
PF: The PyQt/BlackAdder license is so cheap in comparison with the full Qt
EE: It is a very limited market as Matthias has mentioned. And it is also seen
PF: If you look back at everything you have achieved with Trolltech, what
EE: First one is really easy to answer, what's makes me personally most proud
PF: And on the things you regret and wish did not happened?
EE (laughing): That's easy to answer too. I let Matthias answer.
ME: It's an open secret that the full opening of Qt came to late. We
At the time where we were doing the first free version of Qt, there were
EE: Yeah, I agree. But also, part of the discussion at the time was that if
PF: Do you plan to extend your business in the future to something other than
EE: We are already selling solutions to hardware developers of portable
We also do sell training classes, although we outsource most of the
PF: Do you plan one day to make Qt Designer a full IDE? Do you plan to
The second question is a much more likely option and yes we do have concrete
PF: As you know probably, IBM has released Eclipse and the SWT, an IDE and a
EE: We are in contact with IBM and have been for some time over this. And as
PF: Have you encounter any competition with Gtk, in the commercial software
EE: The short answer is no.
PF: And in the opposite case?
ME:I think that even if you don't believe it, it is true, actually true.
EE: Basically, the company we are in contact with, want a C++ solution,
PF: You were talking about Red Hat and you were afraid about Red Hat forking Qt
EE: In fact, in stone ages, that' right.
PF: Have you been in competition with them regarding GUI development: they
EE: No, actually we have not. Not, that I know.
PF: And have you tried to approach them and try to convert them to Qt instead
EE: Not really. We have been in contact with them several times through the
PF: What do you do to make Qt adopted everywhere?
EE: From time to time we are in contact with those companies explaining them
PF: Are you aware of companies that are writing really new consumer products
EE: Nothing we can talk about right now. Most of our customers would like to
PF: I read a few articles on the net, saying that basically all the movies
EE: Yes, we are seeing a big move in this area. And it is basically to move
Actually, the market where we see most movement right now is this one
PF: So that's very specialized high market. For very dedicated and very
EE: yes
PF: Regarding the availability of Qt 3 for Windows, have you think of a
ME: The problem is not so much our licensing, we wouldn't have a problem with
So this is the biggest concern. We could even do a non-commercial
PF: It's just about putting an exception in the license of the software, I
ME: It didn't happen but we have released the non commercial version for
PF: Yes, but it's a heavy work for the one that are running the software, they
ME: Short answer: as a Free Software and KDE guy, yes, this is really
PF: How are people reacting to QSA, the Qt Script for Applications ? Have you already have a commercial reaction about it?
EE: It has not been out there for that long but several customers needed that
This is very early in the process. Typically for a development tool like Qt and
PF: Would you see QSA using other scripting languages, like for example python
ME: QSA is the JavaScript. We could build a scripting solution,
I mean that QSA embedded makes your application scriptable, it is not a competitor to python and PyQt at all, this is not the point. To be technically
PF: And was it possible to use the KDE JavaScript that have been developed
ME: QSA is an extended version of the KJS engine.
PF: Is it really based on the same code ? Or it is just a rewrite.
ME: It is based on the same code and it was written by the same person, Harri
And he was doing that work for Trolltech. The difference is that KJS is aiming
PF: There was a real demand for the JavaScript language or you just
EE: ECMAScript or JavaScript looks like a very strong pretender to be a
PF: One question about team builder [a Trolltech tool to distribute
ME: It is not doing the same thing.
PF: And, is it selling well?
ME: It's selling better than what we invested in it, so in this way, it is a
EE: It's a good product for larger customers having site licenses. They are
PF: And to you plan to make it support the windows compiler too?
ME: Yes we do. It is not that simple because of the Microsoft compiler. It is
PF: That's why you haven't released it initially ? That would really be a new
ME: You know windows compiler pre-compiles header files and this is something
PF: Qt is becoming really fat with GUI stuff, Qt template libraries, XML,
ME: Yes, but it can be done in a binary compatible fashion, that means it can
PF: Which is... when do you plan the next binary incompatible version?
EE: It is always difficult to say, there are discussions going on internally
I think that we have a very good creative development model and we try not to
ME: I would not hold my breath to wait for this version. We are having some
PF: Somebody mentioned that you have some specific prices for startup
EE: We try to be very flexible when start-up companies contact us for
In general, we want of course companies to purchase in the normal manner from
ME: On Windows, most small companies buy a windows license, an Microsoft
PF: How much of a nightmare is it to maintain Qt for so many systems platform
ME: The easiest platform are always the platforms that you use mainly
What is problem is the older versions. Unix has been around for ten
On the other hand, on the windows platform we still support Windows 95 and 98
PF: Are you still maintaining the three versions: Qt1, Qt2 and Qt3, all of
EE: No, we maintain version 2 on embedded platforms and we maintain version 3
PF: Have you ever thought of integrating something like curses and providing
EE (laughing): Maybe for Qt 64? No, we did not thought about this. We don't
PF: Why do you keep your documentation tool secret? And why don't you switch
ME: You know the history of Doxygen?
Trolltech in 1995/1997 used the internal documentation tool to generate the
PF: But don't you think that by making totally open you could have
ME: Nobody could have worked on it except ourselves !
PF: Okay, I see. Hacky Perl scripts...
PF: Okay. I wanted to congratulate you for your excellent advertising in
ME: So you like that.
PF: Yes, we found that very funny and it is exactly like we feel with Qt, the
PF: You probably know that XFree86 had
And secondly, I what is your opinion about how XFree fits with Qt development
ME: That was many questions.
PF: There's a technical question and a political question.
ME: Okay, first the political one. We won't comment on the fate of
PF: Yes. Now, regarding the technical qualities of XFree86?
ME: Yes, XFree is quite old. And it's surprisingly how much
On the other hand the server is everywhere and it's very well distributed and
PF: Do you plan to move to direct frame buffer support in the future?
ME: We have Qt/Embedded that works extensively on the frame buffer. Is
PF: Yes, but this is Qt/Embedded. Do you plan to provide this thing for the
EE: I think that Matthias said that with the current distribution of the X
ME: I saw on the dot that some people keep repeating that X is so
PF: Somebody mentioned that the Canopy Group & SCO owns some parts of
ME: Sorry, we don't have any influence on them.
PF: Do they have any influence on you?
ME: Not really. They have a 5.7% stake in Trolltech. Historically Canopy
PF: You haven't talk about this complicated with SCO on Linux
EE: The patent issue or the corporate issue?
PF: The thing that SCO is asking and preparing to sue everybody about some
EE: I can tell you that we do not support these actions from SCO. Trolltech in
PF: You have any position on software patents? Especially since in the EU
EE: Trolltech is against software patenting. We think it is a bad thing and we
PF: Thank you, I think I'm all done with all my questions. It was quite a long
EE: I think we went through a lot of things. It was a very good idea of you to
EE: Thank you for your time.
That's an excellent interview! Some really interesting questions, and well followed up. Thank you.
You could split it into sections with headers though, as it is quite long ;-)
By Tom Chance at Mon, 2004/04/12 - 5:00am
Re: Wow!
That's an idea. Can you give me a link to my posting. I'll see if I can improve it
By Philippe Fremy at Mon, 2004/04/12 - 5:00am
Longest interview
I've ever seen with TT.. good job!
By wow at Mon, 2004/04/12 - 5:00am
Why do qt programs look different from kde programs?
what is the real difference of KDe and qt programs.
By Andre at Mon, 2004/04/12 - 5:00am
Re: MFC
> Why do qt programs look different from kde programs?
Do they? If then because they use a different style? Because they use a static version of Qt which doesn't allow to load Qt style plugins?
> what is the real difference of KDe and qt programs.
KDE programs are subclassed from KDE classes while Qt programs are subclassed from Qt. KDE programs are thus enriched with more features (sophisticated file dialog, print system, toolbar editor, new widgets, ...).
By Anonymous at Mon, 2004/04/12 - 5:00am
Re: MFC
MFC and Qt do exactly the same thing, so no, there is no binding from one to the other as it would not make sense.
Under java, it is possible to use a Qt implemenation of awt. It is also possible to use Qt directly as an awt/swing alternate implementation but it will only work on unix, unless you have the expensive version of Qt for windows.
By Philippe Fremy at Mon, 2004/04/12 - 5:00am
Re: MFC
> Under java, it is possible to use a Qt implemenation of awt
Where is this QT-AWT implementation? Is it free-software?
By Damjan at Thu, 2004/04/15 - 5:00am
THat was the best interview I've read about Qt, thank you. BTW: It's nice to see that even commercial companies share my view about patents.
By Alex at Mon, 2004/04/12 - 5:00am
Great Interview
Thanks, that's a really, really interesting interview.
By Michael Goettsche at Mon, 2004/04/12 - 5:00am
What SCO patents are they talking about? I don't think any exist. Do they mean copyrights?
By anon at Mon, 2004/04/12 - 5:00am
Canopy and SCO and Trolltech.
The whole SCO ordeal is odious. Everyone that I know who has written any code and released it under the GPL is REALLY ANGRY at SCO claiming that all of Linux (including the utilities that come with it) belongs to them. It's been a year and they've shown *0* proof. As Clara Peller once said, "Where's the beef?!"
Ideed, if there's anyone trying to steal IP, it's SCO. This is a blatant attempt to steal all the effort that thousands of people have contributed to Open Source. I know you had to dance around the question a bit, but it's time to tell SCO and Canopy goodbye. Even if Canopy is merely an *investor* in TrollTech, they are certainly endorsing SCO's actions, and by extension are a _threat_ to TrollTech.
By Boyle M. Owl at Mon, 2004/04/12 - 5:00am
Re: Canopy and SCO and Trolltech.
> The whole SCO ordeal is odious.
I agree :)
> Everyone that I know who has written any code and released it under the GPL (...)
that includes me
> (...) is REALLY ANGRY at SCO claiming that all of Linux (including the utilities that come with it) belongs to them.
I'm not angry. Somehow GPL needed a test case, to prove it's strength in court. Right now it's over a few discussable, silly lines of code. Next time it can be on a different level.
Since I believe M$ supports SCO by giving some money for the trials, i think they're -- just like me -- interesed in the outcome.
Remeber: "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger"
By Cies Breijs at Tue, 2004/04/13 - 5:00am
No CJK questions
I guess this interview was done by KDE France, so maybe cjk stuff is irrelevant, but I would really like to hear more about TT's plans in addressing CJK issues in the future (as well in the near future). There is still a lot of work to be done in this area, and as Japan is coming close to the 5% mark, maybe its time to look into it even more. Better CJK support only means more customers in china/japan/korea which can be a pretty big market that is eager to look into more open-source solutions.
By Ken at Mon, 2004/04/12 - 5:00am
You know...I think Trolltech is a really nice company.
On top of that, Qt is a really nice toolkit (now..I just need an idea for a program to create....)
By Danny at Mon, 2004/04/12 - 5:00am
GPL'ed QT3-WIN32 is needed!!!
They say that so far there is no community for FREE win-32 applications.
Another proof of such demand is that QT-X11 fork started by volunteers to create a GPL'ed Win32 version.
Unfortunately, For my research project i have to use wxWindows becasue it has to work both in Windows, Irix and Linux. :-(
By SHiFT at Mon, 2004/04/12 - 5:00am
Re: GPL'ed QT3-WIN32 is needed!!!
What is your problem? As mentioned in the article itself, if their contibutors are easy to reach SIM could just change the license to include an exception for Qt/Win32 so that SIM can be build with the non-commercial Qt/Win version.
By Datschge at Tue, 2004/04/13 - 5:00am
Re: GPL'ed QT3-WIN32 is needed!!!
There is a non-commercial version of Qt3 out now..
By fault at Tue, 2004/04/13 - 5:00am
Re: GPL'ed QT3-WIN32 is needed!!!
Huh? Where did you get that information from?
Qt 2.3.0 is the only non-commercial version availible at ftp://ftp.trolltech.com/qt/non-commercial/
By Niek at Tue, 2004/04/13 - 5:00am
Re: GPL'ed QT3-WIN32 is needed!!!
It comes with a book. It was announced right here a couple of months ago.
By Roberto Alsina at Tue, 2004/04/13 - 5:00am
Re: GPL'ed QT3-WIN32 is needed!!!
Where is this version? (you have peaked my interest)
As of today, the trolltech web site says nothing about a non-commercial version of Qt 3 for Windows
By SuperDave at Tue, 2004/04/13 - 5:00am
Re: GPL'ed QT3-WIN32 is needed!!!
By Datschge at Tue, 2004/04/13 - 5:00am
Re: GPL'ed QT3-WIN32 is needed!!!
No it doesn't ... that page only gives status for Qt 2.3 - not Qt 3.x -- am I missing something here? Qt 2.3 is aincent, and trying to maintain a (py)Qt project with the unix 3.x codebase while windows is stuck in 2.3 sounds like a big pain in the but.
If all you need is Qt 2.3, this is good enough I guess - but it doesn't cut it for more advanced cross platform open source apps - which is exactly where Qt would shine. The article actually touches on this fact -- licensing being the problem.
Well, this has led me to choose wxPython for my next project, even though I would have preferred Qt. It could be worse, I could be using MFC! :)
By SuperDave at Thu, 2004/04/15 - 5:00am
Re: GPL'ed QT3-WIN32 is needed!!!
"When the official Qt Book "C++ GUI Programming with Qt 3" is released, we plan to include a CD with a special non-commercial "book-version" of Qt/Windows 3.1."
Looks like you can get the non-commercial version, but you can't download it as of yet. However, buying a book seems a pretty small price to pay - at least you get some good documentation, help and software bundled together.
By David at Thu, 2004/04/15 - 5:00am
GPL Apps linked to Qt/Windows
"You cannot take a GPL Linux program, compile them with Qt for windows and give the executable to somebody else, because you would violate the GPL. [Ed: because Qt on windows is closed source]"
I don't really understand this. GPL applications are allowed to link to closed source libraries, as long as it does not have a dependency on them, right? How else could things like cygwin exist? Or GIMP for non-free Operating Systems. What about GPL'ed JAVA apps. JAVA surely ain't opensource.
I think this is just plain nonsense. Any GPL app should be possible to be released using a commercial Qt DLL, as long as the *application* itself has the source code available.
Am I wrong? If so, please explain to me why.
By Richard Stellin... at Mon, 2004/04/12 - 5:00am
Re: GPL Apps linked to Qt/Windows
The program would have a dependancy on it. The key part is the "and give the executable to somebody else". You have to provide source to build that app under the GPL... including all dependancies and licensing dependancies.
Now, if you count Qt as a system library (there is a specific clause in the GPL about those), you can do it. But would you say that Qt is a system library?
By Evan "JabberWok... at Tue, 2004/04/13 - 5:00am
Re: GPL Apps linked to Qt/Windows
Maybe Qt is not a System Library, although it is used by many apps on my system. The app would not have an excplicit dependency on it either. It could just as well be compiled with Qt/X11 for Windows. So why is it a problem if I chose to compile (and release) it with my own non-free library.
What defines a system library anyway? Is Java for windows a system library? And it's not GPL, is it? How come GPL'ed JAVA apps exist then. Are they violating the GPL?
By Richard Stellin... at Tue, 2004/04/13 - 5:00am
Re: GPL Apps linked to Qt/Windows
If you give away the binary it will either be linked to Qt/Win32 or to Qt/X11. The latter is not a problem because the two licenses are not incompatible. The former is a problem because the license on Qt/Win32 restricts you from meeting your obligations under the GPL. You will have infringed on one or the other copyright depending on which action you take.
By anon at Tue, 2004/04/13 - 5:00am
Re: GPL Apps linked to Qt/Windows
The GPL defines it in the following paragraph:
The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for
I don't think Qt is "normally distributed" with the "major components" of Windows. Thus it is not a system library and does not fall under the special exception.
By Evan "JabberWok... at Tue, 2004/04/13 - 5:00am
Re: GPL Apps linked to Qt/Windows
The crux of what you are saying is that the result of merely linking to a library should not create a derived work of that library. Without going into the legalities of the GPL, I would point out that this goes against the spirit of Free Software. Even just the freedom to study the source code to see how it works is kind of meaningless if part of "how the program works" is tied up in a non-Free library. Now the GPL has a special execption for non-Free operating system components, because back when it was written we didn't really have a Free operating system. (Who knows whether the next version of the GPL will have that exception? What about GPLv4?)
Another point to consider is that GPL does not just enable to you access the source code, but allows for further distribution. For instance, I can download a version of LyX which is linked against Qt non-commercial 2.3. If this is really licensed under the GPL, then I should be able to put it on a CD and sell it for real money. However, if I did that, I would not be able to fulfil section 3 of the GPL, _and_ I would be using non-commercial Qt for commercial purposes. Surely I am not free to do this. So here you have a piece of software which has had its freedom reduced by linking against a non-free library.
I hope this helps you understand why they couldn't do this, if not I am happy to continue the discussion.
By Toojays at Tue, 2004/04/13 - 5:00am
What they think about things like Cairo would have been interesting.
By CE at Tue, 2004/04/13 - 5:00am
Qt/Windows for free
I just want to mention that the Psi project (http://psi.affinix.com/) receives Qt/Windows for free. Trolltech gave us 3 commercial licenses, including support and upgrades, provided that we only use it for open source work.
I don't know how common it is for Trolltech to do this. Maybe it helped that I was a Qt customer in the past. Maybe we're the only such project. In any case, if you have a popular and dedicated free software project, you might try asking them to help you out. :)
By Justin Karneges at Tue, 2004/04/13 - 5:00am
Re: Qt/Windows for free
I love psi .. and use it on daily basis. Thank you so much for that program.
By Fabrice Mous at Thu, 2004/04/15 - 5:00am
questions I would like to have seen...
Do you think it would be better for the overall state of free software
Given that you use the native theming APIs nowadays on Windows and Mac OS X, what are you doing as a top two toolkit provider on Linux doing to provide a unified theming API, acceptable to all toolkits?
Would you agree that we need to say goodbye to theme duplication (keramik/geramik) and the horrors that result? (Leading question if ever there was one!)
Would you as a company characterise the Qt/Gtk engine as a realistic cross toolkit theming api or a silly hack?
Toolkits requiring integration include VCL, GTK, Qt, XUL/XBL, Motif, Tk, xaw, athena, swing, xforms, fltk etc etc.... This, IMHO, leads to a probable C and cairo based system. Would Trolltech move to a system such as this? Would they contribute resources to a project like this?
The Avalon questions..
What are you doing to address the coming prevalence of resolution independent user interfaces? Are you going to fully unify the QCanvasItem and the QWidget hierarchies as MS are planning in Avalon?
On Windows, the fact that Qt really fits in nicely and looks native even when it wasn't has served it well. Are you going to be able to keep doing this when Avalon arrives?
IMO, the largest part of Qts appeal on Windows is that it provided an escape from the horror that is programming the Win32 user interface. Anything based on this is really a work of terror and limited - raw access to User.dll, MFC, ATL, WTL, Winforms - all of these make Qt look great. Are you at all worried that the Windows "I can't face another HWND" market will dry up when Avalon hits the scene (granted this is probably 2007 realistically, but you must be planning ahead)?
By rjw at Tue, 2004/04/13 - 5:00am
Re: questions I would like to have seen...
You are a bit late. The questions period was last july:
http://dot.kde.org/994553595/ - ask Trolltech anything
By Philippe Fremy at Tue, 2004/04/13 - 5:00am
Re: questions I would like to have seen...
By Niek at Tue, 2004/04/13 - 5:00am
Re: questions I would like to have seen...
Yep. I'm asking these questions now. Trolltech can decide whether or not to answer them... since they do read the dot.
By rjw at Tue, 2004/04/13 - 5:00am
look what I found
By rjw at Thu, 2004/04/15 - 5:00am
Re: questions I would like to have seen...
> Do you think it would be better for the overall state of free software
That would be a great idea! BSD style license or LGPL will be nice, this is what the free commercial market needs! Then all GPL-related issues will go to hell.
Until then you have to stick with one of those: VCL, GTK, WxWindows
But as you guess this questions are always being ignored.
Btw there is one more option:
By Anton Velev at Thu, 2004/04/15 - 5:00am
Re: questions I would like to have seen...
"free commercial market"? What is that?
By Datschge at Thu, 2004/04/15 - 5:00am
Re: questions I would like to have seen...
Perhaps a commercial market for free software.
In either case it already exists :)
By Kevin Krammer at Thu, 2004/04/15 - 5:00am
Re: questions I would like to have seen...
oh, not again...
Read some articles about Adam Smith and Free Market.
The current state of modern society seems to prove that the Free Market (commercial) is the best working model. (when saying 'market' I mean the economy being it global or local)
Now about the problem: one of the biggest problems of the Free Market is monopoly because the key factor for improvment in free market economy is the commercial competition. And monopoly is the opposite of competition.
If we believe that GPL really destroys one monopoly (well known empire), there still remains the question how would GPL help the competition to improve. Moreover since IT industry requires standartization, seems that it's a normal trend of adpotion of one monopoly solution for a given purpose (as for example current state is that Apache is widely adopted as "standart" solution for webserver, and Windows is widely adopted as a "standart" solution for desktop). However organizations like w3c try to help with the standarts and make possible actual competition of differrent parties when implementing the standarts.
The reason I don't believe GPL is the right solution is because I am strongly convinced that GPL eliminates the competition. Again if we believe GPL will ever destroy all other software and everything becomes GPL do you think there will be competition? You probably can show me the example of GTK vs Qt saga (but this is LGPL vs GPL issue). To me more exact I must add the facts that GPL:
I agree that if there were >10 competing Qt like companies (selling commercial licenses only) and there was no Microsoft that would be better for the Free Market, but the current state of the world makes in impossible. (here is where GPL people find GPL very useful)
But wouldn't it be better (having in mind the current state of the world) for the Free Market if there was a truly open (no monopoly) and standarts compilant platform. (by "truly open" I mean like BSD, X, Apache and MIT licenses) Then every company out there could add a feature and sell it - like Apple does but in a very large scale. With GPL this will be impossible, except if the company that created the GPL software is selling the additional features.
To help you better understand my opinion will show you this formula:
If you can convince me that GPL not only destroys the empire but also helps and encourages the competition then probably I may agree that GPL is the right model.
By Anton Velev at Thu, 2004/04/15 - 5:00am
Re: questions I would like to have seen...
"To me more exact I must add the facts that GPL:
A company may choose to to release a library simultaneously under GPL and a commercial license. You may create GPL software based on the library, or you can pay a fee to release closed-source software based upon the commercially-licensed version. This is the case with Qt on Linux. Companies are able to profit and thus compete while using GPL by including an additional licensing option.
By LuckySandal at Fri, 2004/04/16 - 5:00am
Accessibility NOT required by law
What the government requires is that if the government purchases electronic information & technology they must purchase the MOST ACCESSIBLE version that meets all the requirements.
Saying the law requires accessibility is out of context and simply not true.
By Gildas at Tue, 2004/04/13 - 5:00am
Re: Accessibility NOT required by law
Under the American's with Disabilities Act, employers must make reasonable accommodations for those with disabilities. When it comes time to chose a computer system, and there is one (or many) that have accessibility functions, and one that doesn't, I suspect a judge would say that reasonable accommodation means choosing the systems that accommodate. It would be difficult to convince a judge that it is 'undue hardship' to provide a system when they are commonly available.
So, if I were an employer in the US, and I would consider it defacto required by law. That is why SUN and others have worked on the accessibility functions. Employers that want to use Linux for other cost savings should foot the bill for the development.
And on human terms, I think it is a display of respect if our systems can be used by those with disabilities. Any one of us could be disabled by some accident or illness. It is one more design parameter that needs to be taken into consideration.
By Derek Kite at Tue, 2004/04/13 - 5:00am
Re: Accessibility NOT required by law
Personally, I find the legality of all this hazy. We have stuff like this here in the UK for websites and other systems, but it has never been enforced at all (not likely to either). You just can't sell usability - the above interview is dead right. However, we have high standards in the free software community and there is no reason why something should not be done about accessibility, and it is. I think the free and open source community is great in this respect. If something can be done, and it is worthwhile, then it will be.
Matthias is very right though - we desperately need a system wide IPC/messaging system that anything can plug into. This will not be based on CORBA, or if it is then several layer of standards will need to be developed on top of it. Ask any programmer who does commercial development why they don't use CORBA if you don't know this already. Alternatively, go to your local bookstore, find a book on CORBA and try to 'lift it'. D-BUS looks like a good bet, but I haven't read enough about it and haven't tried it.
This is so badly needed that I really couldn't care a less whether it uses glib or not - I just want my desktop to be able to do things. If there can be a decent compromise where just about any part of a system can plug into it, I think it will be a massive step forward.
Borland Kylix
Why wasn't there any mention about the Borland Cooperation?
By tester at Tue, 2004/04/13 - 5:00am
Re: Borland Kylix
I think the Borland collaboration could have been quite successful, but I don't think Borland quite know what they are doing or where they are heading. In the face of pressure from, particularly MS Visual Studio tools, Java, Macromedia and Qt cross-platform development I don't think they quite know where they fit in. I think even Macromedia will be under threat from a great deal of the WinFX stuff.
Like many of Microsoft's long-time competitors, Borland seem to have backed themselves into a small niche comfort position with existing customers.
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- You're speculating, not specifying. There is clearly some value with doing some up-front requirements or architecture modeling, although the data regarding the value of modeling is fairly slim (there is a lot of dogma about it though), but that value quickly drops off in practice. However, the more you write the greater the chance that you're speculating what people want (when it comes to requirements) or how you're going to build it (when it comes to architecture/design). Traditionalists will often underestimate the risks that they're taking on when they write big requirements up front (BRUF) , or create big models up front (BMUF) in general, but in the case of BRUF the average is that a large percentage of the functionality produced is never used in practice -- this is because the detailed requirements "specifications" contained many speculations as to what people wanted, many of which proved to be poor guesses in practice.
- You're effectively committing to decisions earlier than you should. A side effect of writing detailed speculations is that by putting in the work to document, validate, and then update the detailed speculations the decisions contained in the speculations become firmer and firmer. You're more likely to be willing to change the content of a two-page, high-level overview of your system requirements than you are to change the content of a 200-page requirements speculation that has been laboriously reviewed and accepted by your stakeholders. In effect the decision of what should be built gets "carved in stone" early in the process. One of the principles of lean software development is to defer decisions as late as possible, only making them when you need to, thereby maximizing your flexibility. In this case by making requirements decisions early in the process through writing detailed speculations, you reduce your ability to deliver functionality which meets the actual needs of your stakeholders, thereby increasing project risk.
- You're increasing communication risk. We've known for decades that of all the means of communication that we have available to us, that sharing documentation with other people is the riskiest and least effective strategy available to us for communicating information (face-to-face communication around a shared sketching environment is the most effective). At scale, particularly when the team is large or the team geographically distributed, you will need to invest a little more time producing specifications then when the team is co-located, to reduce the inherent risks associated with those scaling factors, but that doesn't give you license to write huge tomes. Agile documentation strategies still apply at scale. Also, if you use more sophisticated tooling you'll find it easier to promote collaboration on agile teams at scale.
- You're traveling heavy. Extreme Programming (XP) popularized the concept of traveling light. The basic idea is that any artifact that you create must be maintained throughout the rest of the project (why create a document if you have no intention of keeping it up to date). The implication is that the more artifacts you create the slower you work due to the increased maintenance burden.
There are also risks involved with initial envisioning:
- You still need to get the details. Just because you're not documenting the details up front doesn't imply that you don't need to understand them at some point. Agile Modeling includes several strategies for exploring details throughout the agile system development life cycle (SDLC), including iteration modeling performed at the beginning of each iteration as part of your overall iteration planning activities, just in time (JIT) model storming throughout the iteration, and test-driven development (TDD) for detailed JIT executable specification.
- You need access to stakeholders. One of the fundamental assumptions of agile approaches is that you'll have active stakeholder participation throughout a project. You need to be able to get information from your stakeholders in a timely manner for the previously listed AM techniques to work effectively. My experience is that this is fairly straightforward to achieve if you educate the business as to the importance of doing so and you stand up and fight for it when you need to. Unfortunately many people don't insist on access to stakeholders and put their projects at risk as a result.
- You may still need some documented speculations. As noted previously you may in fact need to invest in some specifications, particularly at scale, although it's important to recognize the associated risks in doing so. For example, in regulatory compliance situations you will find that you need to invest more in documented speculations simply to ensure that you fulfill your regulatory obligations (my advice, as always, is to read the regulations and then address them in a practical manner).
The ways that you approach exploring requirements, and formulating architecture/design, are important success criteria regardless of your process religion/methodology. No strategy is risk free, and every strategy makes sense within given criteria. As an IT professional you need to understand the risks involved with the various techniques so that you can make the trade-offs best suited for your situation. One process size does not fit all.
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