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Nokia has bought Trolltech with it's QT framework [message #13800] |
Mon, 28 January 2008 14:52 |
Mindtraveller
Messages: 917 Registered: August 2007 Location: Russia, Moscow rgn.
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http://trolltech.com/company/newsroom/announcements/press.20 08-01-28.4605718236
" Espoo, Finland and Oslo, Norway , 28 January - 2008 - Nokia and Trolltech ASA today announced that they have entered into an agreement that Nokia will make a public voluntary tender offer to acquire Trolltech (www.trolltech.com), a company headquartered in Oslo, Norway and publicly listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. Trolltech is a recognized software provider with world-class software development platforms and frameworks. In addition to the key software assets, its talented team will play an important role in accelerating the implementation of Nokia’s software strategy."
It`s hard to say whether it`s good or bad news.
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Re: Nokia has bought Trolltech with it's QT framework [message #13813 is a reply to message #13811] |
Tue, 29 January 2008 00:42 |
cbpporter
Messages: 1401 Registered: September 2007
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Even if they change the license, KDE will probably still be able to use the current version for Qt. And AFAIK, Qt wanted to adopt some sources from kdelibs for Qt version 4.4, so it seems that they communicate and I don't think they will have problems. But who knows?
If you look a kde4 presentation video speech, except the shameless propaganda, you can see a lot of great ideas which could have great impact on open-source and cross-platform apps. Also, I'm running in a quite beta state a number of kde4 apps on Windows, and I hear it even works on Mac without an X server, so I hope there will be no way for Nokia to imped KDE's development.
Anyway, maybe they'll get rid of the silly MOC objects and replace them with a proper template based C++ signal/slot implementation .
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Re: Nokia has bought Trolltech with it's QT framework [message #13851 is a reply to message #13819] |
Tue, 29 January 2008 23:53 |
mdelfede
Messages: 1307 Registered: September 2007
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cbpporter wrote on Tue, 29 January 2008 10:09 |
I thought that KDE 3.5 was quite stable.
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Well, I tried in the past Red Hat + KDE, Suse linux (based on KDE), and recently Kubuntu, also on KDE.
IMO, latest Gnome is more stable and seems (but it can be only a feeling) much more responsive to user commands.
Of course, KDE has more technology inside, more apps and some more integration over Gnome, but..... That's the 4th time I try to go from windows to linux, and the first I stay with linux, thanx to ubuntu and gnome.
I'm using it at work too, with vmware (sigh) just to run my cad application that requires windows and I'm very happy with it.
After one year not a single crash, not in system nor in applications.
KDE apps used to crash often on my previous experiments.
I did even a KDE install on my ubuntu, but I removed it after a while....
I had the feeling that kde was spreading resources to get too many apps inside, loosing on stability... but I can be wrong.
Ciao
Max
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