Interview With Trolltech's CEO and CTO Eirik Eng

jlp2097 writes "There is a great and lengthy interview at the The Dot with Eirik Eng, CEO of Trolltech, and Matthias Ettrich, founder of the KDE project and CTO of Trolltech. They talk about the recent X(Free86) trouble, accessibility in QT, Trolltech's finances, Qtopia, the OS X Port and a GPL'd Windows QT - it's probably not going to happen. And, did you know that Qt is pronounced 'Cute' by its creators?"

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Question for Eirik Eng

[Anonymous Coward]

Eirik:

How do you feel that the license infighting regarding the GPL and QPL has effected open source's inroads into the corporation? Have you received many inquiries regarding a fully unencumbered GPL application across all platforms that integrates Qt?

I thank you for your participation.

Sincerely,
Seth Finklestein
Interlocutor

"Cute"

[harlows_monkeys]

At work, we went through a phase once of calling people who were doing X "X-boy". E.g., I was doing some email stuff, so people called me "email-boy". Well, one programmer was learning Qt, and as he left one evening, someone called out "Goodnight, cutie-boy!". Man, was his face red when he realized what that sounded like. :-)

Re:"Cute"

[douthat]

What's even more embarassing is being called "X-boy" for doing X at work! http://www.dancesafe.org/slideshow/

Re:"Cute"

[Anonymous Coward]

Is this why I'm known as 'furiously masterbating in the bathroom all day-boy' at work?

Re:"Cute"

[benasselstine]

I think it's pronouced "Kute".

GTK+

[3Suns]

And, did you know that Qt is pronounced 'Cute' by its creators?

I also heard that GTK is pronounced "Gittuk" by the gnome hackers...

Re:GTK+

[richard_za]

"Gittuk" sounds Klingnon.

cute?

[taj]

Another project where the creators don't event know how to pronounce the name of the project? I run into this all the time.

Re:Cute

[Anonymous Coward]

yeah, well I have always prounced the CX domain SEX so I am wary of your sig.

This sounds familiar

[PetoskeyGuy]

Hello this is TrollTech, and we pronounce QT as "Cute"

a la Linux

Instead, they should call it

[Anonymous Coward]

'Gnooteekay'. It sounds somewhat sillier.

Re:Cute

[Erratio]

I like to pronounce FAQ as Fa-Q

Scandinavian deathmatch!

[Anonymous Coward]

Let the world vote - which scandiavian country is best on open source? Norway (Qt), Sweden (Mysql) or perhaps Finland (you know who...). What is Denmark doing, btw...?

Re:Haha

[Anonymous Coward]

Better than having something that's "micro" and "soft".

"No! It's Tee-Cee-El"

[soloport]

I was happily producing tcl/Tk apps for more than a year, until a new employee came on board. He would pronounce it "tickle". "Tickle [this]" and "Tickle [that]" without so much as an ounce of shame. It bugged me so much! I used to pronouce it "Tee-Cee-El" as much as possible just to see if he'd get the hint and *stop*. I stopped working with tcl just to stay away from the small following he'd developed who all ran around discussing better ways to "tickle" -- or whatever.

I still can't pronounce it "tickle" without feeling like I'm somehow being intimate with everyone in the room. It's all about the mental picture. At least "cute" doesn't conote a bad mental piture. I mean, come on... Have some cooth! What if someone came up with a language called BT or FK or SHT? How would you want people to pronouce those languages in a staff meeting?