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IBM Picks Qtopia Over PalmOS And PocketPC

Posted by timothy on from the please-send-a-sample dept.

Bill Kendrick writes "ZDNet, Geek.com and others are reporting IBM's decision to choose Trolltech's Qtopia (the embedded version of their Qt library, used by the Sharp Zaurus PDA) in their forthcoming devices. See the announcement at Trolltech's website, and an earlier press release at IBM.com." Here's an earlier post about the new IBM reference platform.

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  1. just to clarify ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    that's QT, not GTK

    de Icaza is a punk!

  2. Strange thing about IBM by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Did you know the company was founded as a homosexual advocacy group?

  3. GEORGE BUSH YOU ARE A FUCKING MORON!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    How the fuck do you expect to nuke Afghanistan when all of your cruise missiles rely on GPS, so what happens when that goes EH? EH? EH? EH? YOU DON'T KNOW DO YOU?!!?!!? WELL I'LL TELL YOU WHAT HAPPENS, YOU'RE FUCKED!!!!!!!!!!

  4. Bill Gates is a jew?!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Just check out his schnazz.

  5. Re:X-less QT is a bad idea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Face it buddy.
    Nobody uses X for anything anymore these days.

    Good riddance to the Frankenstein of the GUI systems, the ugliest GUI system ever created (that goes for entire philosophy and concept which resulted in what is knows as a Unix desktop - mismatch of completely different toolkits , applications that can't paste text etc ...)