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shmerl	2012-08-01 , 17:54
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It's on the public mailing list - too late for "not to publish it" thing if you ask me.

Surely, in the current situation Qt has no place within Nokia - it'd be only stagnating there under constant shadow of MS. But let's see who will pour resource in Qt from now on.

MS can't stand cross platform technologies in WP, since WP serves as an examplary Micrsofot lock-in. That's why you'll never see Qt or OpenGL there. WP is a total dead end.

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	pycage	2012-08-01 , 18:58
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This was no surprise, was it? At least the situation became clear now and we know for sure that Nokia has no further use for Qt.
It's a sad day for those being employed by Nokia to work on Qt, but it's the best thing that could currently happen to Qt. To finally get out of Nokia's lethal grip. Qt will certainly have a future, while Nokia will have none.

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mikecomputing	2012-08-01 , 19:37
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Originally Posted by shmerl

Looks like Nokia is going further down, and next victim of Nokia's suicide deal with MS will be Qt:

http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermai...st/005467.html

http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermai...st/005478.html

http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermai...read.html#5484

Any thoughts?

Since when was this a NEWS? Will people here NEVER wakeup!?

Btw WHY do people ever CARE what Nokia is doing?

I am sure Qt will survive without Nokia:

If people here really care bout Qt:

contribute
send bugreports
test Qt 5

but STOP cry about Nokia. We already knows this! Its NOT a news!

I am also sure those fired engineers at Nokia will start new cool companys so for **** sake stop cry about Nokia!

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mikecomputing	2012-08-01 , 19:42
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Originally Posted by shmerl

RIM can be a potential buyer here. What about Jolla? They are a startup focused on entering the market. Probably would be hard for them to hire the whole core Qt team.

Nope I dont beleive RIM will buy Qt! If RIM buys QT it not good. Because RIM is as crisis as Nokia.

however Qt will survive but as already said: development will be slow down for short run.

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stlpaul	2012-08-01 , 20:18
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Originally Posted by aironeous

There is a warning on the 3rd email that you are not to publish it publicly so you might want to remove the links.

It is just boilerplate corporate e-mail signatures. The best is when there is an MS Outlook top-posting bonanza thread with about 1100 of those signatures at the bottom.

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mikecomputing	2012-08-01 , 20:49
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Originally Posted by aironeous

Elop, this guy, at this point I'm wondering how many bodyguards he has. I would think he'd get randomly punched by Finnish public.

Have you seen anyone of those at the Nokia top who has ever cared about old Nokia latelly?

Where is that man who was talk about N9? The man who people here thinked was "the good guy, he is on our side" yeah right probadly in bed with Microsoft aready... Probadly gor alot of cash going in bed with WP platform because he dont give a **** about Linux and FOSS move.
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Or more like, do you really think Elop is the only one at the Nokia top to blame!?

Ever heard of investors, capitalism and so on?

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shmerl	2012-08-01 , 21:26
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I didn't say that RIM buying Qt assets would be good (since RIM is in crisis). I said it's a possible scenario of what can happen (after all it's Nokia deciding to whom to sell and etc.).

Getting out from Nokia's grip is all fine, except that with less financial backing it can simply slow down Qt development for other reasons (lack of resources). For projects like LibreOffice getting out of Sun/Oracle's grip was indeed beneficial, but LibreOffice had good developers backing. Let's hope Qt will have it too.

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	www.rzr.online.fr	2012-08-01 , 21:49
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	www.rzr.online.fr	2012-08-01 , 21:52
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	pycage	2012-08-02 , 04:11
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Originally Posted by shmerl

For projects like LibreOffice getting out of Sun/Oracle's grip was indeed beneficial, but LibreOffice had good developers backing. Let's hope Qt will have it too.

There are many with developer interests in Qt. Take e.g. RIM, HP, Intel (Tizen IVI uses Qt heavily), KADB, Digia, ICS, Jolla, the KDE project, Plasma Active, etc.

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