On 07/09/13 07:17, Joseph Bennie wrote:
hi all
while dabbling this morning with some app prototyping I opened the QT Studio
tools and the following thought ran through my head
"Nokia owns QT -> microsoft just bought Nokia and most of their patents -> OK its Dual
licence but its not going to stop MS Legal thinking they can throw stones at us … and actually QT is
used a lot!, a lot of industrial apps and OS apps are built on it, and this is classic ARM territory
-> MS want to rule that space like they prev ruled desktops -> I foresee the next battle
ground"
Am I thinking about this too hard or will this acquisitions be of significant
and detrimental consequence for QT derived works.
Should any of the FSF groups etc be raising potential concerns to respective
competition authorities that highlight that QT related patents could be used to
restrict the development models used for the linux desktop [ and by extension
any graphics based ecosystem*] (fyi my concern is that the designs for api and
signalling will be more impactful than the actual visual widgets, as some of
those designs are likely also present in Gnome etc)
Welcome any thought.. especially from people more knowledgable about QT.
* = the memo team, if i recall was a strong contributor to some of the directfb
work which is an important alternative to the X subsystems for draw rendering…
mostly used for i.e. mobiles and tablets.
Jay
Microsoft have only bought Nokia the mobile division of their business,
I don't know where QT sits within Nokia though?
Tim
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