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Nokia Closing Australian Office, Looking To Sell Qt Assets

Posted by Unknown on from the this-isn't-funny-any-more dept.

An anonymous reader writes "One day after word leaked out that Nokia is shutting down its Qt Australia office, which is responsible for Qt3D, QtDeclarative, QtLocation, QtMultimedia, QtSensors, and QtSystems, reports are beginning to surface that Nokia is trying to sell off all Qt assets." Seems like selling itself to Nokia wasn't the best option for Trolltech after all.

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  1. For better or for worse... by Kensai7 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This might be a good thing for Qt. It is the BEST C++ toolkit for many high quality applications. It was being drudged behind Nokia's anemic policy regarding where to head with a mobile OS. Let's hope it doesn't end to Oracle. :p

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    1. Re:For better or for worse... by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 4, Insightful

      The real awesomeness about QML is not the visual graph - for a high-level UI developer that's an implementation detail. What makes it awesome is declarative UI markup, and flexible data bindings to the model. It's what MVC should have been from day 1.

  2. I hope Google gets Qt by goruka · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And integrates it to Android, NaCL, ChromeOS, etc. It would make developing and porting large applications to their platforms much, much easier.

  3. Re:Still a great toolkit despite Nokia by Enderandrew · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I've wondered how long it would take to make a Unity (or Gnome 3) clone shell with Qt and Plasma. The advantage of Plasma is that you can easily swap shells on the fly and give users choice (though frankly I think the traditional KDE desktop is far more usable than Gnome 3 or Unity).

    However, if anyone should purchase Qt, it should be Google. They can guarantee it will stay GPL. And Google themselves need to learn a few things about cross-platform apps. Apps like Picasa, Google Earth, Chrome, etc. probably should have used Qt from the beginning.

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  4. Re:Nokia -- why? by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ex(?)-Microsoftie

    Does anyone believe that Elop is not still working for Microsoft . . . ?

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