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#18
Originally Posted by Frappacino View Post
About forking

http://blog.qt.nokia.com/2011/02/12/...future-for-qt/

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Everyone, stop talking about forking!! Be realistic, look at the number of commits from Nokia versus everyone else combined. NOTHING is going to replace the hundreds of thousands of man hours a paid, full-time team can afford to put in. If you think so, then simple question: are YOU planning to hack QT for 40 hours a week? If Nokia ditches the Trolls and it’s not picked up by anyone else (Intel, are you listening?), it is OVER outside of KDE. You’d be crazy to develop on a practically stationary platform when WPF, Cocoa, etc. keep moving fast ahead.

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Disclaimer - I know nothing about Qt personally, was just reading the blog.
Sure he is talking about "the number of commits from Nokia versus everyone else combined" as they are now, before the change in direction starts being implemented. But, once the layoffs and change in focus mandates start taking effect things will look very differently.
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