[NTLUG:Discuss] Nokia buys Trolltech

[Chris Cox]

Steve Baker wrote:
> 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.

True, but Nokia doesn't have a great reputation with regards to treatment
of companies gained through acquisition.

(that is to say, they behave like most companies do.)