derstandard.at is the online service of "Der Standard", a pretty mainstream, non-technical daily newspaper in Austria (they focus on politics and economy).

Today they feature an article about an interview they had with Quim Gil at GUADEC. Some things I hadn't read before:

• The maemo-team had no idea that Nokia was about to buy Trolltech and heard about it in the media. At first they were stunned, but now they see some potential.
• QT will probably not be in an official maemo release before 2010.
• It is not certain that GTK will remain part of maemo. QT might as well completely replace it.
• It is not certain that the next major release after Diablo ("Freemantle") will run on current N8x0 hardware.
• more and more parts of maemo will be open in the future. Nokia as a company needs to learn how to interact with the community.

The article also goes on making assumptions about the features of Freemantle, based on what projects Nokia sponsors at the moment. The author assumes the major change will be the UI.

I thought I'd post it here, not only because I think it's interesting (especially the parts about Freemantle not running on N8x0 and QT completely replacing GTK), but also because I'm not entirely sure if Quim Gil knows what his German voice said in Istanbul.