Of course they are worth, but in your previous email you seemed to have some trouble with them so I just proposed an alternative.

The OS development is happening at MeeGo and there you have a collection of open source applications being developed as well. It's up to vendors to take these, take other free software apps or take none.

When it comes to product development the guys deciding on the Nokia investments and the plans to convert them into benefits conclude that having a Nokia proprietary layer is better for business than not having it. Looking at the market and at the business results of companies shipping devices with 100% free software I can't deny that they have a point.

And note that some of the pre-installed apps in Maemo 5 are open source or have a relatively thin closed UX layer on top of open application engines. So it's not that black and white either.


The current situation is that you have Qt 4.7 in Maemo and MeeGo, still Qt 4.6 in Symbian and you also have a recent Nokia announcement saying that the company strategy is to focus on Qt, Qt Quick and HTML 5. Qt Quick is precisely the main difference between Qt 4.6 and 4.7. Once Symbian integrates Qt 4.7 with the corresponding wider support of Qt Mobility the cross-compatibility promise will be fundamentally there. Looking at the Qt roadmap it looks like Qt 4.8 (expected next year) will bring the full materialization of this promise.