Panic

Having read the other posts on planetkde beside mine (the first one) about the M$ Nokia deal, I don't think people panic at least here. I haven't, I have rather had a good laugh at how stupid capitalistic management has become. In fact panic wasn't even a point. All of KDE's stack is FOSS, so this deal does neither kill Qt nor KDE and don't think this is the point. The point why people are upset and emotional is imo that Nokia has bought Qt with great promises and now, without even comunicating a bit with its community has simply teamed up with M$ and spread a lot of FUD. They also haven't discussed the process with the community at all and this is a bad thing. And if you read the news clearly it is stated by both Elop and the news sources that Nokia will use WP7 on all smartphones except one or two. This definetly is a drawback for Meego, as it was seen the next big platform of Nokia.
So the "please calm down" statement might fit to many posts out there, esp. if they tell the doom of Qt and KDE, but it is definetly the time to complain now, because Nokia has made a really bad decision in terms of the community and we should not simply let this pass without statements imo. This also proves that we are independant and that we have a seperate interest in Qt and KDE than Nokia does. In fact it is their turn now to deal with our complains ( esp. since we are the biggest Qt community and very important for them) and not ours to wait if some peace of the cake might be left.

if qt is no longer actively developed doesnt that mean the foundation in tubingen is legally bound to relicense qt under the bsd license

Definitely a setback for QT

While QT will not die, it is obvious that the new CEO ( and m$) wants to dedicate more nokia resources to windows and less to QT/meego. This means fewer paid developers working on QT; Nokia had hired the most people working on QT/KDE until now.

Intel has done nothing for Meego in fact, even in fall of 2010, most of their developers were even unaware of ( or pretended to be unaware of) QT.

Re: Definitely a setback for QT

OTOH, all the blogs and posts I read have developers and nokia employees react unfavourably to the agreement.

Most comments/posts by meego/QT developers are vowing NOT to develop for windows instead go to android if they must.

What will happen to Nokia employees if they are forced to focus their efforts on windows ?

Re: Definitely a setback for QT

> What will happen to Nokia employees if they are forced to focus their efforts on windows ?

A professional developer can adapt to any framework and platform.

Re: Definitely a setback for QT

Sure, a professional developer can even find a job elsewhere.

Re: Definitely a setback for QT

Intel was pushing Meego to developers in conjunction with their "AppUp" netbook app store/DRM system. I don't know if they were actively working towards it, but they were actively promoting it.

I think it may be a conspiracy

Yeah , MS just transplant the CEO and is transplanting some other managers to nokia , thus they can "buy" nokia without costing any money.
Nokia do not want to hurt FOSS Community but Micro$oft does , and M$ do not care about Qt and KDE , they just want to control Nokia and make WP7 survive.

Re: I think it may be a conspiracy

Microsoft do care about qt, kde, linux, and so on.

They want it dead.