trolltech.com— Nokia is acquiring TrollTech -- the company which makes the Qt software found on KDE and linux-based mobile phones.
Jan 28, 2008View in Crawl 4
Probably a good thing. Nokia boasted huge earnings recently, They have Maemo and they have piles of cash. It's just a shame that they shot down Ogg (out of HTML5) and they are a bit cozy with Microsoft and WMP DRM.
On the one hand Nokia has in the past been very into open standards and open source. On the other hand MS came down hard on them using Nokia as a platform to shoot down the W3C's support of Ogg and to emcumber Nokia devices with MS illegal media formats and DRM. On the third hand, this could be just another large US company taking out a key open source technology. The Nokia leadership use every excuse to blame unpopular actions on US based shareholders and partners like MS. Fortunately there is the KDE Free Qt Foundation in case things go south. If this is a case of the first option above, it could be the launch of a major open source commitment from Nokia.
patpiJan 28, 2008
Open Source is good business now? Microsoft has troubles.
schestowitzJan 28, 2008
Probably a good thing. Nokia boasted huge earnings recently, They have Maemo and they have piles of cash. It's just a shame that they shot down Ogg (out of HTML5) and they are a bit cozy with Microsoft and WMP DRM.
schestowitzJan 28, 2008
I've looked at this more closely and it seems like bad news
itssnakeoilJan 28, 2008
On the one hand Nokia has in the past been very into open standards and open source. On the other hand MS came down hard on them using Nokia as a platform to shoot down the W3C's support of Ogg and to emcumber Nokia devices with MS illegal media formats and DRM. On the third hand, this could be just another large US company taking out a key open source technology. The Nokia leadership use every excuse to blame unpopular actions on US based shareholders and partners like MS. Fortunately there is the KDE Free Qt Foundation in case things go south. If this is a case of the first option above, it could be the launch of a major open source commitment from Nokia.
shishiraJan 29, 2008
why Trolltech ? feeling depressed