Nokia To Acquire Trolltech
From OSNews:
Trolltech, the originator of Qt, which forms the basis of the Linux KDE desktop environment, is being acquired by Nokia, the world’s number-one mobile phone vendor. Nokia expects its acquisition of Trolltech to accelerate its cross-platform software strategy for mobile devices and desktop applications, and to enhance its Internet services business. The original press release is also available. Update: “We will continue to actively develop Qt and Qtopia. We also want to underline that we will continue to support the open source community by continuing to release these technologies under the GPL.”
Some gnomies are already starting to panic. What will happen to Maemo? Has Symbian reason to panic too? 
Was this move motivated by Android ?
Iam shure we are all have to be in panic. Nokia dosn’t ist a other word for freedom. Nokia is fighting against freedom all over the world. They dont want Ogg, the lie to their workers and the lie to all other people. Just in the moment you can see it in Bochum Germany. First the take the money, then the go and leave the people allone.
Nokia will take all the work from OpenSource for QT and take it away. Nothing will come back. KDE must make a hard cut. No longer working with the Trolls.
Jochen Hoff
28 Jan 08 at 7:54 am
Greetings Duncan!
Please don’t read more into my remark, which I posted on my blog, then there is. I am not “panicing”, I am simply concerned.
MacSlow
28 Jan 08 at 9:53 am
Macslow isn’t a gnomie, he’s just an asshole hanger on who has contributed nothing to the community.
safasd
28 Jan 08 at 2:10 pm
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