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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. Canopy/SCO Connection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Troll

    Someone's going to mention it, so ...

    PF: Somebody mentioned that the Canopy Group & SCO owns some parts of Trolltech.
    ME: Sorry, we don't have any influence on them.
    PF: Do they have any influence on you?
    ME: Not really. They have a 5.7% stake in Trolltech

    This is completely believable -- Trolltech doesn't really fit into Canopy's current legal strategy, and there's unlikely that there's any "influence" going on there.

    However, you can be sure that Canopy has access to Trolltech's customer lists -- If you have purchased Qt with the intent of doing (say) a large internal Linux deployment, don't be surprised when SCO comes knocking and asking for fees.

  2. Re:"Cute" by finkployd · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why, was he a homophobe?

    Because only a homophobe would ever be embarassed for accidently calling someone cute when they didn't intend to.

    Troll

    Finkployd

  3. Re:MOD PARENT DOWN by fejjie · · Score: 0, Troll

    stop referring to yourself in the third person. we all know you are a troll. it doesn't matter if what you say has valid points or not, you are only posting it to be a wanker.