[Qt-interest] Nokia and MS

[Vincent L. Damewood]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 6:24 AM, Paul Miller <paul at fxtech.com> wrote:
> On 2/15/2011 7:42 AM, Karl Ruetz wrote:
>> Any hedging by Nokia at this point, will force many of us to seek out
>> out other development strategies (something we REALLY do not wish to
>> do). But we cannot be held hostage by Nokia's delay to communicate
>> openly and honestly its intentions for the QT Desktop and QT Creator.
>
> Frankly, I'm not concerned. Many many people rely on it, and I
> personally wouldn't use anything else. If Nokia dumps Qt, I am 100%
> certain Qt will continue in a fork. At the very least, you have the
> source code - if Nokia dumps Qt, it's not like it will suddenly stop
> working. What is the alternative? Rewrite all of my UIs three times, or
> <shudder> use WxWindows? No thanks!

Fortunately, the folks at Trolltech and KDE got together and made an
agreement that if ever Tolltech didn't release a free version of Qt
for a year (such as if they get bought out or went bankrupt), then a
special foundation set up by Trolltech and KDE would have the right to
release Qt under a BSD-style license. When Nokia bought out Trolltech,
the agreement was renewed.

http://www.kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation.php

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