[Interest] Semi-OT: Was Nokia net good or bad for Qt?

[Atlant Schmidt]

Frank, et al.:

  My *OPINION* is that Nokia sucked a lot of the energy
  out of Qt as they tried to bend it into being a mobile
  platform. In the process, the desktop (and my own area
  of interest, the embedded world) was greatly forgotten.

  The only thing that saved Qt from being sucked into the
  black hole of Nokia's demise was the fact that Nokia
  finally disgorged Qt to Digia; otherwise Qt would have
  burned down with the rest of the oil platform, torched
  by Elop.

                       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 K. Frank
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2013 2:14 PM
To: Qt-interest
Subject: [Interest] Semi-OT: Was Nokia net good or bad for Qt?

Hello List!

This whole Elop thing got me thinking about the history of
Qt and Nokia.

Nothing's perfect, of course, and everything's a mixed bag,
but, all in all, do people think Nokia's involvement with Qt
ended up helping Qt or not?

I started using Qt after Nokia acquired Trolltech (2008?
2009?) and then Nokia divested itself of Qt, if I remember
correctly, in 2011, spinning off the commercial licensing
to Digia.  So I guess Nokia had Qt for three or four years.

Did this "detour" (for lack of a better word) end up being
helpful?


Thanks.


K. Frank
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