Future of Qt: Digia aquires Qt
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We'll see how it will work in reality, but so far the news is great! Not only Qt has found a new home, but also a lot of developers have a guaranteed job, and we may see official support for new platforms. Brilliant!
Edit: typos. Lots.
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Congratulation
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Very good news!
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[quote author="Jayakrishnan.M" date="1344500641"]Qt everywhere. Let this become true.[/quote]
Indeed. Oh, indeed :)
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Message that was posted on the mailinglist:
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I’m sending this to you on behalf of Tuukka Turunen.Dear all,
I am happy to let you know that today Digia announced its plans to acquire the Qt technology and assume main responsibility for all Qt activities from Nokia. This includes driving forth the Qt Project together with the community. The acquisition also includes a part of the Nokia Qt team. Read the full blog post for more details: http://www.digia.com/en/Blogs/Qt-blog/Tuukka-Turunen/Dates/2012/8/Digia-extends-commitment-to-acquire-Qt-from-Nokia
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Ah, great! This is going in the right direction.
Lets hope that the Trolls in down under get saved too, then everything should be fine.I'd like to see Qt spread to more platforms, Android and iOS are a good way to start.
But I also think that the qt project must be continued, Qt has to become independent. -
There are 2 updates on Nokia's blogs, written by "Tuukka":http://blog.qt.nokia.com/2012/08/09/digia-extends-its-commitment-to-qt-with-plans-to-acquire-full-qt-software-technology-and-business-from-nokia/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+TheQtBlog+(The+Qt+Blog) and "Sebastian":http://blog.qt.nokia.com/2012/08/09/investment-in-qt-planned-to-continue-digia/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+TheQtBlog+(The+Qt+Blog).
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This is by far the best news about Qt we've had in months.
I guess with this announcement, the time of uncertainty about Qt's future is over (at least for a while).
The official announcement's text fuels hopes of a even brighter future of Qt on as many devices as never before. I'm even a bit surprised they anounced their commitment to Android and iOS with their first official statement, but it definitely shows a clear vision of true platform independence - a vision that could not be developed as effectivly when a company like Nokia is responsible for development, that has a high interest in committing to one specific platform only.
Nevertheless, I'm grateful for the effort Nokia has put into Qt within the past years and I believe that it has contributet a huge amount to the successful development of Qt in the past.
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It would be more than a little ironic if Nokia's new main smartphone platform ends up being the only major such platform without Qt support...
