> Nokia is a pretty big Linux supporter - all of their tablets/PDA > things run Linux, for example - so I doubt they will do anything to > hurt Qt.
According to some comments, Nokia left bad taste with previous acqusitions and decisions, not to say how they are strong supporter of patents. Some rumors said that they had to do this due disappointment with GTK it's problems and unclear roadmap. > Regardless, if things *do* go south the KDE developers can always > just fork the last GPL release and continue on... Interesting is that KDE Foundation added this: "To fulfil the purpose of the Foundation, an agreement between Trolltech and the Foundation was made. This gives the Foundation the right to release Qt under a BSD-style license in case Trolltech doesn't continue the development of the Qt Free Edition for any reason including, but not limited to, a buy-out of Trolltech, a merger or bankruptcy." Source: http://www.kde.org/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation.php For those who have not a chance to look at the recent osnews.com comments regarding to this acqusition, here is the interested one: http://www.osnews.com/permalink?298056 -- Sanel _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
