[NTLUG:Discuss] Nokia buys Trolltech
Chris Cox
cjcox at acm.org
Mon Jan 28 18:12:04 CST 2008
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.)
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