[NTLUG:Discuss] Nokia buys Trolltech

[Steve Baker]

Chris Cox wrote:
> Greg Edwards wrote:
> ...
>   
>> I don't see where Nokia could kill Qt since it's already out there as
>> GPL.  I'm sure that the KDE team has 1 or 2 copies.  Even if Nokia
>> decided not to take it forward, KDE is too dependent on it to let it
>> die.
>>
>>     
>
> Well.. kill being relative.  If no more development is done, it doesn't
> matter if it's GPL or not.  Though GPL does at least protect it so that
> somebody CAN pick up the ball.
>   
Loss of parent organisation support isn't always a disaster - lots of 
projects only
really flourish when they are run by the community rather than by the 
original
owners - who being a commercial organisation will inevitably have commercial
designs on the software that may not fit the needs of the Linux community.