Qt C++ GUI library is now set to die, as a result of the MS takeover

[Nick_B]

Here is a comment by Jeff_S, near the bottom of the comments re 
Microsoft taking over Nokia.

I now worry that the wonderful Qt C++ GUI library, that Nokia now owns 
with it's acquisition of Trolltech a few years ago, will now founder in 
stagnation.

The optimist in me hopes that it will ported to Win Phone 7. But the 
realist in me says "fat chance". With this huge deal with MS, and Qt 
being cross platform, and MS being all about MS platforms and dev tools, 
Qt is now likely toast. Sad.

Good thing it's open source. It will still have life as a separate open 
source entity, but without the paid developers at Nokia working on it, 
it's progress will slow dramatically. There is only so much slack the 
community is capable of taking up.

I'm also scratching my head on this, in terms of what Nokia gets out of 
this. They are essentially trading a larger, more successful, more 
established, platform and ecosystem (Symbian) and large developer mind 
share, for a much smaller, much less successful, much less developer 
mind share platform and ecosystem (Win Phone 7 and Silverlight).

original URL here
see: 
http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/Nokia-swaps-one-burning-platform-for-another-in-Microsofts-silent-takeover-of-the-Finnish-phone-maker/1297438206?awesm=betane.ws_yJ&utm_content=api&utm_medium=betane.ws-twitter&utm_source=twitter.com

cheers
Nick