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Re: so, the million dollar question..
by Anon on Monday 28/Jan/2008, @05:06

They would have been absolutely free to do this without the huge legal, administrative and social headache that comes from acquiring another company.

I'm really not seeing a single advantage to Nokia here unless they want to stifle development of Qt. The only thing I can think of is that they do indeed want to use Qt (remember that they expressed dissatisfaction with the development of GTK? - http://www.osnews.com/story/18444/Nokia-Pushes-for-GTK+-3.0/) and will license Qt for development of apps intended to run on *Nokia* devices to commercial parties *for free*, or maybe a heavily discounted rate, and thus obtain a top-notch toolkit that has the number one strike against it (the need for closed-source software writers to pay a fairly hefty fee) removed, or at least mitigated. Money would continue to flow into Trolltech from the Windows app-writers side.

I'm sure though that even if this is what they are planning, there would have been easier ways to accomplish this than outright purchasing Trolltech - brokering some kind of special deal with TT, perhaps - so again, I really question what they have to gain, here.

On the plus side, TT are neither stupid/ naive nor desperate for cash, so there is presumably a good case for embarking on this path.

We'll have to wait and see, I guess :/

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Re: so, the million dollar question..
by Aaron Seigo on Monday 28/Jan/2008, @14:50

> unless they want to stifle development of Qt.

that has not been my understanding of the strategy.

> The only thing I can think of is that they do indeed want to use Qt

this is closer to it.

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Re: so, the million dollar question..
by Segedunum on Tuesday 29/Jan/2008, @06:03

"I'm really not seeing a single advantage to Nokia here unless they want to stifle development of Qt"

I don't see how that would be an advantage. TT is doing nothing to hurt Nokia right now.

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Re: so, the million dollar question..
by Hank Miller on Tuesday 29/Jan/2008, @06:34

Greenphone. I know it is a non-issue today. However if Nokia sees derivitives as a future problem (compitition) they may want to buy TT now, just to make sure the greenphone never is a problem.

As I've said elsewhere, I can come up with many different explinations. I can't tell you which are correct. I wouldn't be surprised if all are wrong.

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