Nokia to acquire Trolltech

I couldn’t help mentioning this here and I do not intend to hype up anything. Trolltech have made a press release about the same and issued an open letter to the KDE community. According to some sources, holders of approximately 66.43 percent of Trolltech’s issued shares and votes have approved the offer. As always I won’t repeat what’s already been explained so far unless I have an opinion about this, so I’ll quote Havaard Nord, CEO and co-founder of Trolltech, just so you know that the deal has been made carefully.

We will continue to actively develop Qt and Qtopia. We also want to underline that we will continue to support the open source community by continuing to release these technologies under the GPL.

So this move should help Nokia to take advantage of Trolltech’s creativity and strengthen their mobile application platform. Open source, open source… I wonder if the Android had any reason to inspire this. So Havaard Nord’s dream of seeing ‘Qt Everywhere’ should soon become a reality. What started as a framework for making graphical user interfaces in C++, it has evolved to becoming the foundation of the K Desktop Environment. I wonder how the GNOME fans will react, but one thing is for sure, I definitely did not see this coming!

~ by SoftVision on January 28, 2008.