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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2006-09-16
> What is unethical about that? They made a deal with the government
> that they would guarantee the jobs for x amount of subsidies until
> 2006. They did exactly what they promised in the contract for the
> subsidies.
First of all, even if they didn't violate the law, it doesn't make it less unethical. Not nearly everything that is legal is ethical.
Additionally, it looks like Nokia did NOT what they promised in the contract and therefore they will probably have to return about 40 million Euros in subsidies to the government of North-Rhine-Westphalia:
http://www.fr-online.de/in_und_ausland/wirtschaft/aktuell/?sid=7b96... (German)