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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There was also a story here not too long ago about how Nokia wheren't entirely happy with the direction GTK 3.0 was taking. Perhaps buying Trolltech is a way for them to get complete control over their future gui toolkits and to able to offer the same development environment (more or less) on phones, internet tablets and PC desktops.