Yesterday's big news was Nokia's $153M acquisition of Trolltech, makers of the Qtopia framework and the Qt platform. Some of you might have heard of the Qtopia Mobile Phone, or the Sony Mylo, or Skype, or Google Earth, or Adobe Photoshop Album, or the Nokia PC Suite -- one thing common about them is that they are 'Trolltech Inside.' A lot of discussion brewed from this move from Nokia. A hefty discussion brewed at itT and posting the same question at the Maemo Developers List received some interesting responses worthy of a 'free software opera' as Quim Gil, Nokia Development Platform Product Manager puts it. Quim, as most of us know from Maemo.org, has just posted a new entry on his blog to hopefully put perspective on Trolltech and Maemo. Here are some snippets: ...I made some research to confirm the guess. When it comes to maemo, there are no Trolltech/Qt related plans at the moment. On the mid term… well, nobody knows. What follows are my thoughts today. Trolltech develops Qt, a cross-platform application development framework that powers KDE and is also licensed to many commercial software projects. Nokia pushes the Symbian OS with several own platforms on top like S60 or S40, plus several non-mobile applications like Nokia PC Suite (developed with Qt, by the way). Trolltech’s toolkit and its C++ native language (which is native in Symbian as well) fit very well in Nokia’s short term strategy to improve cross-compatibility between the Symbian platforms. If making a good use of the Qt library helps having in maemo some of the cool stuff available in S60, all the better then. Thanks for taking time explaining thing Quim! Read the full article.