Qt and Nokia’s new strategy
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So Nokia finally made its announcement about future strategy and marriage with Microsoft, creating one big “happy” family that they call ecosystem :( . It seems there is not so much space left for QT in it. Whats NEXT? Our company made investment in developing software on QT for a desktop … and now this fundamental base started to shake. If Qt is no more a priority, what about next releases and updates, what about bug fixes and support … and finally what about innovation on QT platform. This was not cleared yet and we need answers.
As a personal user it seems I’ll say bye bye to Nokia … It’s enough for me for this mess … I invested much time in QT and mobile platform … and now I have to drop everything in trashcan because there is no more meaning and future … THANKS NOKIA
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“This morning’s strategy announcement was a significant shift for Nokia, and all of the parts within Nokia, including Qt.
Given the many implications of this strategy change, we are taking a little bit of time before we contact all of our stakeholders to talk directly with them about what it all means.”
I would like to point out though that your investments into Qt are secure, independent of what Nokia will do. The whole code is available to you after all. Nobody can take what is released under LGPL (or whichever licensing option you took) away from you.
All articles in conversations.nokia.com doesn’t talk about Qt…
In LGPL we trust…!
Ok it’s LGPL … but if there is no more evolution and maintenance, it’s the end .. I am afraid… What’s happen today clearly said that Trolltech need to be an independant (perhaps fundation ?) company (no more dependant on manufacturer) and Nokia is for sure not the good bet … Trolltech need to be self profitable and now that it’s LGPL it’s for sure no more the case.
In may point of view having investor for Qt was (or IS???) a big thing. Qt changed quite a lot comparing what was before acquisition, and most of these changes were welcomed (like LGPL …). Yes, I hope and believe that Qt will not dye. In worsest case community will keep it alive. But without major investor it would be much harder to maintain innovation speed and penetration to new platforms, especially mobile ones.
But in either case … be strong QT …
“This morning’s strategy announcement was a significant shift for Nokia, and all of the parts within Nokia, including Qt.Given the many implications of this strategy change, we are talking a little bit of time before we contact all of our stakeholders to talk directly with them about what it all means.”
I would like to point out though that your investments into Qt are secure, independent of what Nokia will do. The whole code is available to you after all. Nobody can take what is released under LGPL (or whichever licensing option you took) away from you.
This is more about mobile platform; for desktop KDE, if no one else, will atleast maintain Qt, but for mobile platform I doubt no company will pick up the maintenance if it isn’t main platform of a device.
I’d like to point out that in one of those announcements was mention that Qt isn’t dropped (now) and Meego will use it whereas it will be used in Symbian too. It looked like it won’t get into WP7, but we can hope for it, I hope.
Losing great contributions of trolls to desktop Qt is huge drawback though, so I don’t want Nokia really discontinuing Qt… Or selling / transferring rights of code to some other company.
But I hope all of you remember that Nokia is not Trolltech; a company who lives from Qt. Nokia lives from mobile phones; I suppose Ovi Market isn’t that profitable like Android’s or Apple’s alternatives are.
Wow, you sound like the end is near. It’s not. Things are admittedly tricky over here right now but so far, we have no indication of Qt going away or let alone being discontinued. We need clarification in many areas but for now, we’re doing business as usual.
The communications team is preparing messages and I hope I can share some more information soon. Ideally, over the weekend.
Hopes … but …
at short term, qt will continue .. for sure … Elop needs you for the transition … But after…
For small company like mine, It’s very disturbing to read Nokia new Roadmap … I have invested since years in Qt … and I see no commercial raison (the new roadmap for Nokia …is clearly not technicall but just commercial ) why Nokia will continue Desktop and mobile Qt platform … in fact good day for microsoft : find a way to sell wP7, kill meego and symbian and kill the only good commercial C++ platform … viva dotnet …
Hopes you can communicate on news that we can trust (see previous communication about meego and symbian … http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/Porting_Android_(Java)_applications_to_S60_5th_Edition
I suppose now we will have porting Qt app to .Net
My opinion about this. [developer.qt.nokia.com]
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