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

[From: Ross Burton]

On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 15:42 -0500, maemo at bitblit.net wrote:
> Just saw this on maemo-users list:
> 
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 03:24:30PM +0000, Matt Emson wrote:
> 
> http://www.nokia.com/A4813580 -> go to webcast
> 
> According to Kai Oistamo (around minute 9):
> 
> "I want also to make clear that the key driver for Nokia doing this
> acquisition is not to develop a Linux-based mobile device. This
> acquisition really is enhancing and making even more competitive S40,
> S60 and Maemo platforms [...] Maemo will continue to be based on Gnome
> [...] and S40 and S60 will evolve with Qt"

That is pretty much what I had imagined, but now I'm wondering if their
plan is to create a new "S60" based on Qt, or port Qt to S60 (as they
have already done with POSIX via Open C).

Ross
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