Code and Life » acquisition http://codeandlife.com Tech and other visions from the liquid crystal tower Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:47:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 en hourly 1 Nokia acquires Trolltech! http://codeandlife.com/2008/01/29/nokia-acquires-trolltech/ http://codeandlife.com/2008/01/29/nokia-acquires-trolltech/#comments Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:18:20 +0000 jokkebk http://codeandlife.com/2008/01/29/nokia-acquires-trolltech/ Just a short note on this Slashdot newsbit that almost got me falling off my chair: Nokia is acquiring Trolltech, the makers of QT graphics library behind the popular Linux window manager (/platform) KDE.

I mean, if I had been asked a month ago the top three companies making money with open source software, I would’ve replied RedHat, MySQL and Trolltech. And since MySQL has already been acquired, I really wonder what is next.

Also, it is interesting that Nokia decided to acquire Trolltech, even though their Maemo platform is based on GTK and Gnome, not QT and KDE. Well, let’s just hope they don’t stop providing a GPL version of QT in the future.

Anyone want to bet who is the next open source shop being acquired by some big players? My bet is RedHat being acquired by Google or Microsoft, because, well, that would just be surprising, wouldn’t it?

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