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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2007-10-26
My first thought was that Nokia is buying Trolltech for Qtopia, not so much for Qt.
Perhaps they are thinking of putting linux to their (smart)phones and replacing Symbian? There are a lot of people who have experience in Qt. Maybe they want phone programming more accessible? My experience with Symbian is very limited, but i've understood that it's quite complicated to program and that there isn't enougn competent people to fill all the jobs.
On the other hand they have put lot of effort to Symbian, so it seems unlikely that they would dump it in favor of Linux/Qtopia.
Or maybe it's just to avoid someone else getting Qt(opia).
Anyway this is quite exciting news.