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TrollTech to IPO?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the unconfirmed-yet-still-interesting dept.

burninginside writes "Yahoo is reporting that Trolltech, the world's biggest producer of Linux software for mobile devices, may be heading public. 'Sources close to the company' said the move may come as soon as 12 months but the official word is still that it 'is not in our immediate plans.'"

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  1. About Trolltech by Ctrl+Alt+De1337 · · Score: 4, Informative

    For any of you wondering who Trolltech is and why you would care about them, their biggest claim to fame is that they develop Qt, the GUI used by KDE.

    1. Re:About Trolltech by rm69990 · · Score: 5, Informative

      Actually, QT is a cross platform C++ toolkit. The KDE developers develop their own GUI using QT. It would be the same as saying that GTK is a gui...which makes no sense whatsoever. GTK is a widget set, Gnome is the GUI.

  2. Re:Microsoft execs by jg21 · · Score: 4, Informative

    The execs are Juha Christensen and Tod Nielsen. While at Microsoft, Christensen brought to market the Pocket PC, Pocket PC Phone Edition, and Smartphone, in addition to Mobile Information Server and Server ActiveSync. Tod Nielsen too held senior management positions such as vice president, Platform Group and vice president, Developer Relations.

  3. Re:Will their tools stay free? by oever · · Score: 5, Informative

    KDE Free Qt Foundation:

    The KDE Free Qt Foundation is an organization founded by Trolltech and the KDE e.V. in 1998 with the purpose to secure the availability of the Qt toolkit for the development of Free Software and in particular for the development of the K Desktop Environment (KDE).

    Agreement page 1
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    The question of course is: what is a new release? Just another version number?

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