[NTLUG:Discuss] Nokia buys Trolltech

[Daniel Hauck]

Chris Cox wote:
> larry dagostino wrote:
>> http://trolltech.com/company/newsroom/announcements/press.2008-01-28.4605718236
>>
>> Very interesting news from Trolltech.  Does this mean that NTLUG will get more love from Nokia?
> 
> No offense, but likely  VERY bad news.  Nokia isn't a software company.
> There's a better chance that this would spell the end of Qt long term (at least
> for FOSS things like Linux).
> 
> We'll see.
> 
> This is just a need for greed deal.
> 
> NTLUG gets a LOT of love from Nokia currently.... not sure how it could increase
> any more.

It could just as easily represent a change of direction for Nokia in 
that they now want to go with Qt and away from GTK+.  Personally, I 
don't care one way or the other except that progress is fueled by 
competition and if one or the other ceased to compete or be competition, 
then we'd likely see an ugly stagnation of progress rather similar to 
that which XFree86 demonstrated.

Personally, I don't use Qt or KDE.  I have nothing against it, but since 
I grew up on GNOME, it's where I'm most at home.  I have observed a lot 
of fantastic progress in KDE and such and I would view it as tragic if 
this were the end of it even if I don't use it at all.