Re: on the Nokia announcement

Aaron for Ambassador to Egypt!

Sounds good.

The last paragraph is excellent...don't jump the gun, look for
opportunities, avoid ill-conceived reactions

In the past few months, I've had the sense of: KDE on the rise,
Microsoft/Nokia losing dominant position in mobile--the hottest tech
sector. The story is--Can Nokia save Microsoft's mobile business?

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Aaron J. Seigo <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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