Digia Buys Out Qt From Nokia

[necro-lover]

Congratulations for actually registering to the Phoronix forums to say that.
Either you're trolling or have been very misinformed, my friend.

And so one and so one nerd-life is pissed if someone shows him the reality and the reality shows clear that Qt do not have any relevance on any market-share in the business.
The mainstream is were the big money goes and Qt do not have any place in the mainstream. Just compare the market-share of Ubuntu (unity) to Kubuntu (Qt) o well nerd paradise do not like to compare the relevancy with real numbers they prefer to calculate with dream numbers instead.

Yeah, its not like one of the most popular linux desktop environments uses qt extensively, as does various popular software (such as vlc player), how about you get over yourself and stop spreading fud?

Well how do you measure the "most-popular" ? DistroWatch.com? LOL only nerds use that website real man calculate in euro or dollar turnover and profit. And no Linux desktop distro with QT technique make any turnover or profit. And your popular software "VLC" worth nothing because the people don't spend any money on it and again the lie is revealed just by the turnover and profit numbers. Thy to fool another one not me. Show me any Qt relevance turnover and profit numbers.

Out of business is the second name of Qt. Inside of the business they do not have any place.

[entropy]

It has the backing of Google, Samsung, RIM, ICS, Intel, Panasonic, KDE, Philips, Sony, European Space agency, VLC media player, HP, Dreamworks, Siemens, Volvo, Lucasfilm, Autodesk, Wolfram and The Foundry.

Steam.

Valve is not known for making compromises.

[n3wu53r]

In my point of view Digia Buys Out Qt From Nokia only because they are necrolovers.
Qt is death they do have ZERO relevance in the desktop market and ZERO relevance in the mobile market.
Mobile is the world of iOS and Andorid and both do not use Qt and the Desktop is the world of Windows,Macos,Ubuntu and not a single one of these popular OS systems use Qt.

Sorry but the truth is Nokia only sell it because Qt do not have any worth or relevance.

Stop trolling. What do you mean Windows, MacOS and Ubuntu do not use Qt? Qt has been on these systems for years!
Qt is the main toolkit for Blackberry OS 10, there is an Android port and they are porting to iOS.
Besides this does not matter, most Qt money comes from licenses used in industrial settings and embedded systems. Most Qt apps aren't for the consumer.

You are an absolute idiot if you think Qt has zero relevance. It has the backing of Google, Samsung, RIM, ICS, Intel, Panasonic, KDE, Philips, Sony, European Space agency, VLC media player, HP, Dreamworks, Siemens, Volvo, Lucasfilm, Autodesk, Wolfram and The Foundry.

If you are saying Qt has no relevance because pretty much no mainstream OS uses it as the _primary_ toolkit for development you are wrong. Qt hasn't had this for 20 years, it isn't going to die because of it now. Java hasn't had this except for android, (which is recent). It has done fine for years.

Stop trolling.

[M1kkko]

Please read the Wikipedia article for more examples of software that use Qt.

[bwat47]

In my point of view Digia Buys Out Qt From Nokia only because they are necrolovers.
Qt is death they do have ZERO relevance in the desktop market and ZERO relevance in the mobile market.
Mobile is the world of iOS and Andorid and both do not use Qt and the Desktop is the world of Windows,Macos,Ubuntu and not a single one of these popular OS systems use Qt.

Sorry but the truth is Nokia only sell it because Qt do not have any worth or relevance.

Yeah, its not like one of the most popular linux desktop environments uses qt extensively, as does various popular software (such as vlc player), how about you get over yourself and stop spreading fud?

[M1kkko]

In my point of view Digia Buys Out Qt From Nokia only because they are necrolovers.
Qt is death they do have ZERO relevance in the desktop market and ZERO relevance in the mobile market.
Mobile is the world of iOS and Andorid and both do not use Qt and the Desktop is the world of Windows,Macos,Ubuntu and not a single one of these popular OS systems use Qt.

Sorry but the truth is Nokia only sell it because Qt do not have any worth or relevance.

Congratulations for actually registering to the Phoronix forums to say that.

Either you're trolling or have been very misinformed, my friend.

[necro-lover]

In my point of view Digia Buys Out Qt From Nokia only because they are necrolovers.
Qt is death they do have ZERO relevance in the desktop market and ZERO relevance in the mobile market.
Mobile is the world of iOS and Andorid and both do not use Qt and the Desktop is the world of Windows,Macos,Ubuntu and not a single one of these popular OS systems use Qt.

Sorry but the truth is Nokia only sell it because Qt do not have any worth or relevance.

[Awesomeness]

However, if one day the CLA is seen as hurting more than forcing a fork (e.g. Digia stops contributing to upstream Qt), the Qt Project are free to re-evaluate the use for the CLA.

That's just fancy talk. Nokia/Digia have almost all votes anyway.

[Jonno]

It would then follow that if Digia now controls open source Qt that the delta should no longer be an issue.

Except that Digia don't, the Qt Project does.

However, the Qt Project is a meritocracy and has a large contingent of soon-to-be Digia employees, so up streaming code from Qt Commercial to Qt proper should become much simpler for Digia once the acquisition is complete.

[Jonno]

So, Qt Project could decide to abandon the currently required CLA for all contributors?
The question was rhetorical: No they can't. Nokia (soon Digia) have full control about how Qt is run and what can go in and what can stay out.

That is not true. The Qt Project has 100% control of what goes into "Qt", and Digia has 100% control of what goes into "Qt Commercial". Of course, it is beneficial for both parties to cooperate, so while the Qt Project is free to drop the CLA requirement, they are unlikely to do so, as that would force Digia to make Qt Commercial a full-fledged fork (rather than a branch) of Qt.

However, if one day the CLA is seen as hurting more than forcing a fork (e.g. Digia stops contributing to upstream Qt), the Qt Project are free to re-evaluate the use for the CLA.

It's exactly what lead to the LibreOffice fork of OpenOffice.

No, what lead to the LibreOffice fork of OpenOffice was that Oracle never handed over the reins to the OpenOffice.org Community Council, which Sun had promised to gradually do. That can not happen in this case, as Nokia already have handed over the reins to the Qt Project, a move Digia will not be able to undo.