Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 28th Jan 2008 09:33 UTC, submitted by anonymous
Trolltech, the originator of Qt, which forms the basis of the Linux KDE desktop environment, is being acquired by Nokia, the world's number-one mobile phone vendor. Nokia expects its acquisition of Trolltech to accelerate its cross-platform software strategy for mobile devices and desktop applications, and to enhance its Internet services business. The original press release is also available. Update: "We will continue to actively develop Qt and Qtopia. We also want to underline that we will continue to support the open source community by continuing to release these technologies under the GPL."
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2006-01-26
Hopefully this will make some companies considering to use other toolkits like WxWidgets or FLTK.
I see big companies eat smaller ones and the future can be very bad, full of monopolistic giants everywhere with more power than governments.
Another thing is that the commercial licensing can change, being more expensive or restrictive.
I see there are hidden intentions, like making use of the WebKit port and qtopia that can start to be a serious competitor to Symbian in the future. I think GTK will have things more difficult, losing one of the potential users of the toolkit.
Edited 2008-01-28 10:07 UTC