On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Robert Caldecott
<[email protected]> wrote:
> After today's WP7 announcement by Nokia and rumours rife that Qt is
> going to die a slow death is it too soon to ask what the future of
> this project is?  I am very upset that the future development of both
> Qt and Qt Creator might now hang in the balance as I have based my
> career of the last few years around this framework, introducing it for
> many projects at the company where I work.  Both the framework and the
> tools are superb products and they deserve to survive.
>
> Can we expect some form of statement on the future of Qt or is it too
> soon to ask?
>
> I worked for Nokia briefly in 2010 (working on OviSuite) and am sad
> that my old colleagues are now worrying about the prospect of another
> round of redundancies.
>
> Good luck Trolls.

I'm not affiliated with Nokia, but it does seem to be worth pointing
out that Nokia's drive towards Open Governance was in case something
like this were to happen. Nokia wants Qt to be controlled by the
community, so that as an open-source project it can follow the wishes
of the developers that use it and continue to grow regardless of
Nokia's own use and vision for it. I'm confident Qt won't die; I'm
just deeply disappointed that I won't be able to use it on my next
smartphone like I was hoping to.

/s/ Adam
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