[lightdot]

If you want to make a committee and decide for everybody what should or shouldn't be worked on, by all means, go ahead. Or agitate against projects online, that works too. Should be a fun for you and funny for most others.

Or you could just contribute to a project you find suitable, for whatever reason. Should be fun for everyone.

[hedora]

This startup isn’t going to prevent things from being worked on by others, but if they can’t decide basic things like which gui toolkit to use, then they’ll burn through their (extremely limited) funding well before they have a working, let alone competitive, product.

The mistake of “support every option in the community for version 1.0” has happened before. I suggest reading an OpenMoko postmortem (especially if you are somehow involved with this project).

For this product to succeed they need to minimize the amount of time and resources they spend getting to a phone that works as a daily driver.

Someone else can port qt/gtk/elightenment/etc to it after that happens. Otherwise, there will be no sustainable hardware platform to port those things to.