Nokia Gives Some Hints On the Future of Qt

Posted by timothy on Saturday February 12, 2011 @07:10PM from the will-remain-two-letters dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Continuing the damage control following the announcement of the Nokia-Microsoft partnership, Nokia has a post on their official blog outlining the future of Qt which includes some (cherry picked) comments from Qt users. Phil from Nokia writes, 'Lots of great questions and comments coming from you all on the future of Qt. One thing is for sure: Qt remains to play an important role in Nokia. We'll have more Qt-related posts coming this week during Mobile World Congress, but for the time being, the Director of Qt's ecosystem, Daniel Kihlberg, wrote a post on Qt's official blog on the future of Qt.'" An anonymous reader points to one unattractive possible future for Qt.

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Re:Why is this a bad thing? by Morty · 2011-02-12 19:45 · Score: 5, Interesting
I would love to hear all the reasons this is such a bad thing.
Why Nokia getting into bed with MSFT is bad:
1. Nokia owns one of the major Linux desktop components, qt. This potentially endangers that component, by removing some of Nokia's incentive to continue qt development.
2. Nokia owns one of the major open-source phone OSs, Symbian. This potentially endangers that OS.
3. Nokia is involved in another open-source, Linux-based phone OS, MeeGo. This potentially endangers that OS, too.
In a single stroke, three high-profile open-source components are potentially endangered. If you care about open-source, this is a bad thing.