Comments on: Nokia acquires open-source firm Trolltech
Trolltech's open-source programming component and tools should help ease Nokia's cross-platform development difficulties, the Finnish mobile phone maker says.
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- Every reason they stated
- by The_Decider January 28, 2008 10:04 AM PST
- Could have been accomplished by just buying licenses.
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- Not so expensive
- by Mystigo January 28, 2008 11:05 AM PST
- Qt is expensive, but for my company, where we use it in multiple
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(3 Comments)Trolltech is one of the more greedier "open source" companies.
Look at the pricing structure for QT. Outrageously expensive. QT is a good product but should be well under $500 for the proprietary version and the OSS version should be LGPL like wxWidgets.
products, it is well worth the price.
My concern is that Nokia will short change the Windows and Mac
versions of Qt. We don't even develop for Linux. Without full and
ongoing support for both Windows and Mac, the product has far
less value to us.