on the Nokia announcement

hi all...

so .. the questions are already starting to come in about Nokia, Qt and KDE 
after the recent announcement regarding windows. here's an answer i provided a 
journalist this morning which i think could be a useful starting point for a 
template:

"The most important thing to keep in mind is that Qt is licensed under the 
LGPL and has a broad ecosystem around it. Regardless of what happens at Nokia, 
it won't be the end of the world.

That said, it is far, far too early to say anything conclusive about what it 
means for Qt and therefore by extension to F/OSS communities like KDE and 
their projects. We're (KDE) putting together an internal task force to work 
through these topics with Nokia as well as the broader Qt community and it 
will need a few weeks to arrive at useful conclusions.

It's a dynamic situation that we're taking seriously and tracking, but we're 
also being careful not to jump the gun and either miss opportunities that 
arise as a result or make poor reactive decisions to challenges as yet not 
fully understood."

as things develop, we can evolve that message to be contain more definite and 
useful answers.

thoughts?

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
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