[freepats] software project

[Ben Collver]

On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 02:46:29PM +1000, Mark Constable wrote:
> Just 2 comments, please try and push any projects to the likes of Github so the
> rest of us have easy access and as for almost lightweight OS frameworks, I am
> particularly interested in Qt5 and the likes of http://www.maui-project.org
> 
> We're only a year away from full on Wayland availability and I can't see the
> really old frameworks and code working on Wayland... perhaps ever. And also,
> if effort put into coding is not mobile and touch friendly then it cripples
> potential deployment over the next decade. For me, Qt5 is the best path forward.

Variety is a good thing.  Once all the world was a VAX.  Once it was all
going to be Java.  The VAX, Java, and Wayland are good things, but there
is room for others.  If someone puts their own effort into something
fringe, it is constructive, not destructive.  It may be unfashionable,
but it does not cripple progress.  If the needful functionality is
there, then source code is easy to access, regardless of whether it is
github, gitorious, a self-hosted fossil repository, or something else.

-Ben