Re: (OT) Nokia Buys Trolltech

In the sacred domain of comp.os.linux.misc,
Christopher Hunter <chrisehunter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> didnst hastily scribble thusly:
Tim Smith wrote:

In article <d8adnd3cOpoeHgPanZ2dnUVZ_jGdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Stephan Rose <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
See the problem though is that it's going to take a few months to find
out if that will be the case or not. I and other developers can't wait
that long and for many people, myself included, a Nokia owned QT is not
appealing.

What problem(s) do you have with a Nokia-owned QT?

Nokia are /very/ precious about their software - you can be sure that qt
would go "closed" very quickly.

They can't close the currently released GPL licensed version.
An independent group could take up the slack whether nokia liked it or not.
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