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What do Nokia and KDE have in common?
LockedQT.
seems that Nokia bought out Trolltech. [ Now they claim they have spent 14 years developing QT which is patently fake since I know about Trolltech having been making QT for a decade.http://qt.nokia.com/
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KDE groups together hundreds of contributors from across the globe, committed to the development of and the spirit of free software. Their work shows all the benefits of the Qt framework in a sheer endless amount of use cases and never ending creativity.
KDE releases more than 600 applications built on Qt which are translated into more than 100 languages.”
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http://qt.nokia.com/developer/community-resources/community-resourcesKind of proves that Nokia doesn’t really pay attention doesn’t it?
after all, KDE4 drove Linus Torvalds [ the inspiration for the Linux package, the kernel of a GNU/Linux system ] to GNOME it is so badly done.When 75% of the functionality of earlier versions of KDE are ripped out, it makes it really obvious that KDE4 is only meant for looks, not to be used at all.
When KDE4 requires things like Plymouth, that explicitly IGNORE user configurations, it makes KDE4 useless.
all in all, Nokia might want to distance themselves from the KDE project. KDE4 has made the QT widget set a WILL NOT BE INSTALLED item on my GNU/Linux systems.
edit: Typo, Linus, not Linux. 😀