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BrowncoatGR
01-28-2008, 12:50 PM
http://trolltech.com/company/newsroom/announcements/press.2008-01-28.4605718236

Espoo, Finland and Oslo, Norway , 28 January - 2008 - Nokia and Trolltech ASA today announced that they have entered into an agreement that Nokia will make a public voluntary tender offer to acquire Trolltech (www.trolltech.com), a company headquartered in Oslo, Norway and publicly listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. Trolltech is a recognized software provider with world-class software development platforms and frameworks. In addition to the key software assets, its talented team will play an important role in accelerating the implementation of Nokia’s software strategy.
Let's hope this ends up being a good thing. I really like KDE. For anyone who doesn't know Trolltech develops the QT API used by KDE among others. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_%28toolkit%29

THE JEW (RaVeN)
01-28-2008, 01:44 PM
Might be good--might be bad.

Good = money for development

Bad (well, for me anyways) = focus of development on cellphones and the desktop suffers.