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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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optimistic

by REMF on Mon 28th Jan 2008 15:26 UTC

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2006-02-05

i think this will be a good move for Trolltech, and at te very least neutral for KDE.

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RE: optimistic

by sbergman27 on Mon 28th Jan 2008 23:55 in reply to "optimistic"

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2005-07-24

i think this will be a good move for Trolltech, and at te very least neutral for KDE.

I don't see what Nokia would be interested in except QTopia. So this is probably good for QTopia. But I don't see Nokia caring much about all the desktop tech. It's not their line of business at all. In fact, desktops are what they'd like to kill, in the name of the cell phone device revolution. I expect that the KDE guys are going to effectively end up having to take over development of QT.

Looks like the day of reckoning has come. And we will get to see how much help GPL actually is when a large and highly complex code base gets dumped on us.

Edited 2008-01-28 23:58 UTC

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RE[2]: optimistic

by anda_skoa on Tue 29th Jan 2008 12:59 in reply to "RE: optimistic"

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2005-07-07

But I don't see Nokia caring much about all the desktop tech. It's not their line of business at all.

I think they are looking into making it part of their business.

The mobile and desktop market already started to overlap and I am pretty sure Nokia wants their share of the "EEE PC" style market as well, for which they need "desktop tech"

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