Uhh, NO. Sorry you are way, way off.

QT has always been (in a way) free OSS (FLOSS). You are probably thinking of the Windows port. Trolltech released Qt/Windows 4 under the GPL in June 2005, which isn't exactly recently. . .

The FLOSS version of QT has always been free, but Trolltech charges for the version used to make closed-source software, and used to charge for the open source development kit a long long time ago. Due to the dispute over that the Gnome project was formed (it existed sort of before that anyway. . .), and the KDE Free Qt foundation was formed in Since then the FLOSS version of Qt has been under a BSD-style license.

The Mac version has been FLOSS since 2003.

Disclaimer: The statement below is a joke
The tablet version has been closed source since Nokia bought Trolltech watch out penguinbait!!!

OK, seriously now, the purchase of Trolltech could be a good or bad development. Like FREE I'm somewhat hesitant to give my blessings to all of this just yet. . .

On one hand it will give Nokia more experienced Linux developers. On the other hand Nokia had always been a proponent of closed-source software until Maemo came along (see Symbian). Hopefully this development means they are somewhat changing their ways as they see the advantages of FLOSS. IF they leave Trolltech as an independent company I see no real problems. On the other hand if they fully integrate it into the OSSO division that would be a real tragedy, I believe. A better thing would be to integrate the OSSO division into Trolltech and keep it separate.

None of this should have too much of an effect on FLOSS stuff since the version used is already FLOSS and can be developed independently if need be. Hopefully Nokia will see the tremendous advantages of keeping the KDE team on board and working on that, and not phone-based stuff. It could prove to be a major advantage if Nokia allocates a bit more money to Trolltech for KDE R&D. That would be awesome and really help GNU/Linux move forward!