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The good thing is, as Nokia needs money, it is in their interest to find a buyer that will pay good money for Qt, ie a buyer with strong interest in the Qt tech. So it's Nokia's interest that Qt ends with someone with a strong interest in it, and enough money. Which are in my op two good things for the various communities around.

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Originally Posted by pycage (Post 1246315)

There are many with developer interests in Qt. Take e.g. RIM, HP, Intel (Tizen IVI uses Qt heavily), KADB, Digia, ICS, Jolla, the KDE project, Plasma Active, etc.

isn't canonical also using qml in unity?

anyway I think its save to say that QT has more payed devs than GTK+

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Originally Posted by erendorn (Post 1246390)

Only if the new company knows how to work with FOSS...

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Originally Posted by mikecomputing (Post 1246515)

Only if the new company knows how to work with FOSS...

Are you implying Nokia knew?

Nokia with all the shortcomings did make Qt openly governed, and even released it under LGPL in the first place. Trolltech didn't as you know. Which caused the whole thing with appearance of Gnome, while there was a big effort in KDE already.

QtLocation and Qt3D components will not be modules but add-ons because of Nokia decision to close Brisbane office:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...tem&px=MTE1Mjg

I just find it rather sad that in the beginning of 2010, it was announced that Qt was going to be THE programming platform for Nokia, with it being supported on Symbian and Maemo, then MeeGo was announced, then Elop was hired, then... well we know the rest from early 2011.

Now they're going under, firing the Qt devs, then they'll sell off the trademarks, then they'll... well burn basically.

Occasionally I see people say "oh, don't blame Elop, all the share holders are behind him." well, those share holders want to make money, right? There must have been some sort of contract that they signed saying they couldn't oust Elop unless certain conditions were met. Maybe they're stuck with him a minimum of 3 years. Either way, whatever happened, they can't be all that happy that the stock has plummeted. Maybe he spiked them with some really good LSD, or is sharing his premium crop of marijuana. That's about as much sense as I can make of it...

slaapliedje

I'm still heavily developing and porting my projects to all Qt Devices and Platforms I own.

If Nokia don't release Qt stuff and devices in the future it's the problem of Nokia, not mine. Personally I see no future for Nokia without a powerfull application framework. I'm glad Qt is open source. BlackBerry and Jolla are my next targets.

Now that Nokia steps out of the game Samsung could be more interested to adopt Qt for Tizen. They were in the past afraid the big player Nokia could have to much influence in Qt and qml. At least as far as I understood this was the reason for Samsung to don't adopt MeeGo and go the html5 way.

If Nokia would have supported 2 platforms in their "ecosystem" I would have been fine with Windows Phone and would have ported perhaps some of my stuff over to WP since I already use .NET at work. But without competitive Smartphones which attracks my own needs I see no reason to release anything for the dying ecosystem Stephen Elop loved. WP is just not competitive.

Rest in Peace Nokia. You were a faithful companion the past 17 years... now somebody else will make a aging geek happy!