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Digia spins off Qt as independent company - full circle from Trolltech

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From the «love those widgets» department:
Title: Qt is about to be independent again
Author: zafiro17@pipedot.org
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 10:54:33 -0400
Link: http://pipedot.org/story/2014-09-17/qt-is-about-to-be-independent-again

Once upon a time, the Qt developer kit was written and published by Trolltech.
Then it was sold to Nokia. Then Nokia sold it to Digia. And now, Digia is
spinning it off as an independent entity[1]. Freedom at last?!The Register
reports:

While Digia puts an upbeat spin on the separation, it's hard to avoid
wondering if, like Trolltech and Nokia before it, the company has found it
hard to reconcile the coexistence of the open source and commercial versions
of the platform.It said as much in August, noting that “The installers and
product packages for the open source and enterprise versions are different,
and there is a complete disconnect between qt-project.org and the commercial
pages on qt.digia.com” when it announced its intention to create the
subsidiary.Digia holds 100 per cent of the new Qt company at this point, and
said one of the aims of the new operation will be to unify the two sets of
packages, starting with one set of installers.The first step of the creation
of a new Qt has now gone live, and a few days ago the unified operation
popped its head up at the IBC conference in Amsterdam to position its
capabilities as a set-to-box and digital TV UI development environment.

[Ed. note: Now that Qt is on its own[2], they should come up with a good name
for the organization. I propose "Trolltech" - just so we can truly come
full-circle.][2014-09-17 15:15 Title updated from QT to Qt]

Links:
[1]: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/17/digia_straps_qt_into_ejector_seat/ (link)
[2]: http://qt.io (link)

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Digia spins off Qt as independent company - full circle from Trolltech RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-09-17 20:03 +0000

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