Stephen Elop to join Nokia as President and CEO [LWN.net]

Stephen Elop to join Nokia as President and CEO

Posted Sep 14, 2010 8:30 UTC (Tue) by sylware (guest, #35259)
Parent article: Stephen Elop to join Nokia as President and CEO

The meaning of this will probably slowly appear in futur nokia doings or non-doings.

The bright side: this guy may have done his coming out in open source software as I and certainly many did before (he's late).

The dark side:nokia is toasted from an open source software point of view, or at least risky to deal with, especially with its open source technologies.

Like oracle and mysql... I would start to look for alternatives right now, and certainly not put all my eggs in the same basket. For instance, Qt would be on hold, and a switch on GTK+/Clutter/EFL/etc would be seriously considered.

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Stephen Elop to join Nokia as President and CEO

Posted Sep 14, 2010 11:12 UTC (Tue) by rvfh (subscriber, #31018) [Link]

Again, Qt is LGPL. So what could be the point of switching?

Stephen Elop to join Nokia as President and CEO

Posted Sep 16, 2010 14:46 UTC (Thu) by Lovechild (guest, #3592) [Link]

Familiarity for existing Maemo and Moblin developers, existing community and investments. But they went with QT, peace be with that, I just hope Novell will do a MonoTouch like development framework for MeeGo one could use for a consistent experience.