[Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

[Atlant Schmidt]

Thiago:

> I'm not going to give you an analysis of the issue, since I'm
> not allowed to, but if any journalists are around and thinking
> of reporting that as a sign of Qt's value, please think again.

  Which is why, of course, I wrote "the rest of Qt" in my
  original posting; I don't know the terms and conditions
  under which Digia acquired the Qt Commercial business.

  Still, this may serve as an indication that once a company
  converts a piece of closed-source software to open-sourced
  software, that company has effectively thrown away most of
  the *MONETARY* value of that software.

                                 Atlant

-----Original Message-----
From: interest-bounces+aschmidt=dekaresearch.com at qt-project.org [mailto:interest-bounces+aschmidt=dekaresearch.com at qt-project.org] On Behalf Of Thiago Macieira
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 8:22 AM
To: interest at qt-project.org
Subject: Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

On segunda-feira, 13 de agosto de 2012 07.57.48, Atlant Schmidt wrote:
> All:
>
>   Apparently, the price Digia paid for the rest of Qt was
>   EUR4m (US$4.9m).
>
>   That's quite a mark-down from the US$150m Nokia paid to
>   buy Trolltech in 2008!
>
>                                        Atlant

That's neither here nor there. I don't know if the number is official or just a rumour. But even if it is, the circumstances are completely different.

I'm not going to give you an analysis of the issue, since I'm not allowed to, but if any journalists are around and thinking of reporting that as a sign of Qt's value, please think again.

Nokia is a company in financial difficulties today and is divesting of an asset is has no use for anymore.

--
Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
     Intel Sweden AB - Registration Number: 556189-6027
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