Keith Rusler, from comments section of the article: "I have to say, Nokia made a bad decision jumping to WP7 knowing that Qt wouldn’t be on it. Now that Nokia did this, they basically went from Qt “Code once, run everywhere” to “Code once, run nowhere”."
Nokia needs to sell Trolltech NOW. The apparent conflict of interest is too great regardless of what the real conflict of interest might be.
And I, like most Qt programmers, don't know what the real level of conflict-of-interest level is. But if I've learned one thing in the corporate world, it's that appearances matter. The appearance that Nokia wants to kill Qt is enough to screw-up a lot of decisions.
Nokia needs to sell Trolltech NOW. The apparent conflict of interest is too great regardless of what the real conflict of interest might be.
And I, like most Qt programmers, don't know what the real level of conflict-of-interest level is. But if I've learned one thing in the corporate world, it's that appearances matter. The appearance that Nokia wants to kill Qt is enough to screw-up a lot of decisions.
Otherwise, KDE should take steps to force an Apache release of QT source. Better now than later. See: http://www.kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation.p...