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Nokia spends €105m on mobile Linux developer

cor

Good for Trolltech. 

Posted Monday 28th January 2008 15:24 GMT

Happy

They deserve recognition for their contribution. A pity that I didn't know this morning, I would have bought me some of those shares...

Paul

QT used quite a lot. 

Posted Monday 28th January 2008 19:45 GMT

Alien

this has set the maemo (internet tablet) forums buzzing - Ari has said relatively little on his blog, so people don't know whether there will be a new UI for the tablets in the future based on QT (or some mobile version of KDE).

QT appears in a lot of places - not just obvious linux devices such as the Sharp Zaurus, but also in Archos media players, and some Motorola phones (so Motorola will be upset!).

heystoopid

So 

Posted Monday 28th January 2008 20:59 GMT

Paris Hilton

Reading between the lines Nokia is about to hit the market with a quad band god phone Iphoney killer in double quick time !

What price a choice ?

BKB

Qt not cross platform? 

Posted Tuesday 29th January 2008 00:22 GMT

Boffin

Isn't Trolltech's Qt GUI software cross-platform? It's supposed to work on Windows and Mac as well as on Unix/X Windows. The article makes it sound like Qt is only for Linux.

Patrick O'Reilly

Would someone please think of the K.D.E.! 

Posted Tuesday 29th January 2008 00:22 GMT

Linux

Lets just hope they are as strong supporters of the K.D.E. community as Trolltech was.

Mark

Re:Would someone please think of the K.D.E.! 

Posted Tuesday 29th January 2008 13:21 GMT

Well, trolltech already have a poison pill in that if the GPL'd code is removed, the code becomes BSD'd, which would allow it to be GPL'd again. A die-off to BSD is probably the best idea for a software poison pill, better than GPL even, since the BSD code can be closed up or put into any open license you want, whereas GPL can only be put to GPL-compatible licenses (though one driver for GPL3 was to make it compatible with more licenses than GPL2 is).