« Perl Qt4 v4.000 released | Main | KDE 4.1 release plan published; v4.0.1 tagged »

Nokia is buying Trolltech!

From Trolltech's website (and also here at Nokia's site):

Nokia and Trolltech ASA have agreed that Nokia will make a public voluntary tender offer to acquire Trolltech; the offer is NOK 16 per share in cash, and holders of 35,024,830 shares (66.43% of the total) have irrevocably agreed to the sale; among those who have agreed are Haavard Nord (Trolltech founder), Vuonislahti Invest AS (controlled by founder Eirik Chambe-Eng), Teknoinvest and certain funds managed by Index Ventures. Nokia have said that they will continue releasing Qt on an open-source basis.

At KDE Dot News, Aaron Seigo notes that Nokia will also become a patron of KDE e.V. and the KDE Free Qt Foundation (which is licensed to release Qt under the BSD licence should Trolltech, or its successors, cease doing so under the GPL) and last week, Messrs Nord, Chambe-Eng and Lee Williams of Nokia wrote this letter to the KDE community asking "for ideas and comments on improving their relationship with the open source community".

TrackBack

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.blogistan.co.uk/mt4/mt-tb.cgi/2590

Post a comment

(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)