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Interview With Trolltech's CEO and CTO Eirik Eng

Posted by timothy on from the bringing-others-joy dept.

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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  1. "Cute" by harlows_monkeys · · Score: 4, Funny

    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. :-)

    1. Re:"Cute" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

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

    2. Re:"Cute" by benasselstine · · Score: 4, Funny

      I think it's pronouced "Kute".

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  2. GTK+ by 3Suns · · Score: 5, Funny
    And, did you know that Qt is pronounced 'Cute' by its creators?


    I also heard that GTK is pronounced "Gittuk" by the gnome hackers...
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  3. cute? by taj · · Score: 4, Funny


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

  4. This sounds familiar by PetoskeyGuy · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    a la Linux

  5. Re:Cute by Erratio · · Score: 4, Funny

    I like to pronounce FAQ as Fa-Q

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