From: Tim E. R. <ter...@ro...> - 2011-02-12 06:16:59
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On February 12, 2011 12:52:18 am Tim E. Real wrote: > On February 11, 2011 04:25:26 am Robert Jonsson wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > Just some gossip. > > > > Some years ago Nokia bought Trolltech and in turn sped up the > > development of Qt, in all a good thing for us in the open source > > world. > > Lately Nokia has been losing steam quite rapidly though and I've been > > wondering about the implications for Qt. > > Today they announced they will quit making Symbian phones and start > > making Windows phones instead... Talk about swearing in church! Their > > previous plan was to go for their Nokia/Intel joint platform Meego > > which is where they were using Qt. > > Not sure yet how this will affect the continued development of Qt, > > this far it seems they will keep working on Meego for other devices > > than phones. > > > > Random thoughts... it's friday, and a slow one at that :) > > > > /Robert > > OK I just read the full Nokia history on that news story. > Sad. The empire wins gain, I guess. > > Was following MeeGo talks in LAD with Niels M. > It's neat the way he got some HW engineers and devs to converse. > Must be disappointed. They seemed to be getting somewhere > > I wonder all the time what the fate of Qt will be. > I think someone will always buy it, it is popular. > Could Microsoft buy it and retro-activate all the licenses? > It is open source, right? Couldn't the community pick it up? > > I think often about poor Gnome and how it is truly 'free'. > Now I read that Ubuntu is ditching it, for their own? Oops, sorry no it's just Gnome with a new shell. Cool. No need to panic. > > Tim. > > |