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KDE and Nokia
by peter on Monday 28/Jan/2008, @03:13

I hope it won't end like Novell and OpenExchange.

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Re: KDE and Nokia
by sebas on Monday 28/Jan/2008, @03:24

To me it looks like a big company seeing the benefits of Qt, and taking measures to make sure it continues to be technically excellent in the future. Nokia has a nice (if not totally clean) track-record in the Free Software world, and as e.V. dude, I'd be happy to welcome them to support KDE more actively (which is what they plan to do).

Despite all the bitching, this is an excellent opportunity for KDE to gain more traction also in the mobile space - an area where there's quite some room for improvement for KDE currently. Seeing another big player in the industry backing (and using Qt) is probably a very good thing.

And if anything fails, having Qt under a BSD license (which is what the FreeQt foundation guarantees in case TT doesn't release a new version with real new features every year) should be enough of a safety net.

Otherwise, Trolltech has been an excellent partner to work with in the past, and I do not get the impression that this will change.

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Re: KDE and Nokia
by Jorge on Monday 28/Jan/2008, @03:46

Not completely clean:

- heavy support of software patents in Europe
- known for pressing w3c to not include ogg in html 5 standards

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Re: KDE and Nokia
by Segedunum on Monday 28/Jan/2008, @04:18

"- heavy support of software patents in Europe
- known for pressing w3c to not include ogg in html 5 standards"

If Nokia are to get anywhere, that has to change.

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Re: KDE and Nokia
by blacky on Monday 28/Jan/2008, @18:55

Ť- known for pressing w3c to not include ogg in html 5 standardsť

That's misleading. Nokia voted against OGG as a web standard; that is they want HTML to remain multimedia-neutral.

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Re: KDE and Nokia
by SadEagle on Monday 28/Jan/2008, @19:00

I wonder how many people complaining about this use gmail or similar sites?

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Re: KDE and Nokia
by Joergen Ramskov on Tuesday 29/Jan/2008, @01:26

Their arguments about this was amazingly flawed though. They even called Ogg for proprietary technology - I'm sorry, but WTF?!

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