On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 10:12 +1300, Ian McDonald wrote:
I personally think that this is good news: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080128-nokia-buys-trolltech-will-beco...
Kinda worries me a bit. If their smartphone products are anything to go by, it would seem that Nokia are heavily into crippleware - locked-down appliances - as opposed to open, general-purpose computing platforms. I'd bet there's some folks in Nokia already pondering ways to Tivoise qt - for instance, leaving the GPL releases to languish several revs behind, and putting out future commercial releases as binary-only, under a license which forbids modification and imposes a J2ME/MIDP-like certification regime (read: walled garden, closed shop) on 3rd party apps - not so much for desktop/laptop, but definitely for embedded/mobile devices. Sorry, but until I see evidence to the contrary, I'm viewing the Trolltech sell-out as somewhat of a Faustian deal - for way too small a purchase price. Cheers David