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===== Nokia Qt LGPL switch huge win for cross-platform development By Ryan Paul | Published: January 14, 2009 - 01:00AM CT Nokia has announced plans to make the open source Qt toolkit available under GNU's Lesser General Public License (LGPL). This change could significantly boost Qt adoption, redefine the economics of cross-platform programming, and dramatically reshape the landscape of commercial application development on the Linux desktop. Qt is a popular cross-platform software development framework and widget toolkit that supports Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and several mobile operating systems. It provides the underlying foundation of the open source KDE desktop environment and is also widely used by commercial software vendors. It was originally created in the early 90s by a Norwegian company called Trolltech, which was acquired last year by Nokia for $153 million. [...] ===== -- Soh Kam Yung my Google Reader Shared links: (http://www.google.com/reader/shared/16851815156817689753) my Google Reader Shared SFAS links: (http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user/16851815156817689753/label/sfas) _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
