Quotes of the week

We stand at a corner of FOSS history, where the realization that projects led by one vendor only tend to fail, unless the vendor itself puts others in charge of the projects and gives free reins to its community. Look at what's happening with Fedora with respect to its ditching of copyright assignments. Experiences in other projects show that the "protection" that such assignments provide is at best minimal, and most of the times quickly abused, most of the time by its steward.

Let's merge Qt and the KDE development platform. Let's put all KDE libraries, support libraries, platform modules into Qt, remove the redundancies in Qt, and polish it into one nice consistent set of APIs, providing both, the wonderful KDE integration, consistency and convenience, as well as the simplicity and portability of the Qt platform.