Re: on the Nokia announcement

On Friday, February 11, 2011 12:11:33 Aaron J. Seigo 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?

It's actually really close to what I've answered to a journalist earlier this 
afternoon who called.

Thanks for sharing...
-- 
sebas

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