[maemo-developers] What does Nokia's acquisition of Trolltech mean to Maemo?

[From: Jari Kirma]

On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, =?UTF-8?Q?Beno=C3=AEt=20HERVIER=20 wrote:

> I think their are more interested by the OS "Qtopia Phone Edition" than QT on Maemo.

Although this has some backing on the press release, it's still my 
personal speculation: Qt is reasonably portable, and Nokia has already 
demonstrated that Open C works on the S60 platform. I don't think they're 
directly interested of any specific platform; rather, they would distance 
themselves from strong reliance on Symbian platform. That could make the 
applications reasonably portable to future (even unknown!) platforms on 
the source code level by building up a relatively OS-agnostic development 
environment; in this case Open C, Qt and some other less Symbian-specific 
APIs would make it reasonably easy to build applications for both S60 and 
future platform, be it Linux if you want to say so.

As the growth of device capabilities has made Open C (and probably Qt) 
practical on the phones, supporting Qt along with the current environment 
on future tablets could as well be not a such a far-fetched idea to think 
of.

-kirma