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Tenfold

15 January 2009

Tutti sanno come il battido d’ali di una farfalla ad Hong Kong possa causare un uragano a Conegliano Veneto, ma questa e’ piu’ interessante:

Le Qt 4.5 saranno rilasciate sotto LGPL. Per la gioia di tutti i set-top-box maker (tra i quali spiccano alcune realta’ hi-tech italiane!), dei produttori di dispositivi embedded/mobili, o semplicemente di chi fa programmi per computer: non si dovranno piu’ pagare costi fissi (di licenza) e/o variabili (runtime royalties) per le Qt!

    Effetti collaterali:

  • esiste ora uno stack software completo (kernel linux, toolchains, librerie Qt) per creare nuovi dispositivi ‘consumer’ senza sborsare un cent in licenze
  • ci sara’ una migrazione da parte di chi usa altri toolkit (magari tecnologicamente inferiori, o piu’ complessi da usare, o non gratuiti.. es: gtk+, vxwidgets, .net) verso le Qt
  • tramite meccanismi a catena, e’ attesa una vasta diffusione della tecnologia, infatti come Nokia stessa prevede:

    in the long term, the benefits of adopting a participatory development model and accelerating development far outweighed the value of the revenue stream that it could generate by selling commercial licenses.

E qual’e’ la relazione con la farfalla? Che una societa’ decide una nuova strategia commerciale e subito il tuo curriculum diventa 10 volte piu’ appetibile !!!
(…usciro’ dal Dei, prima o poi… ;-))

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Leaving M31 behind

10 January 2009

In three days, on wed 14/1/09, I won’t be an M31 employee anymore.
After 2 years of dedication, addiction, dreams and a lot of fun (thanks to all the lovely people in there, some of the best friends I’ve ever had!), I feel it’s the right time to move on.

Many thanks to all the cool people in there (the ones that make you smile, save your ass, drive you home, drive you mad, drive you crazy, teach you, kiss you, never betray you, and love you) and I wish all the best for M31 (that has been so kind to me during those years).

So.. thank you guys and remember that from 6pm to 9am I’m still a cool friend of you 😉

Enrico

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