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Posted by lorn
 in Qt, Qtopia, KDE
 on Monday, June 16, 2008 @ 09:01

Well,
This is my last post as a Trolltech employee. I have worked for Trolltech Pty Ltd, in Australia. since 2003. I can proudly say I helped Qtopia become more open, and fully GPL. It’s been a short 5 or so years, I have seen the Brisbane office grow from around 14 people to around 50, found my wife, had a son and daughter. A lot has happened in the past years. Ran ‘make’ more times that I want to think about. Got Qtopia running on all the devices I could. Yelled and complained and praised till I was blue in the face.

Tomorrow (Tuesday), I will be employed by Nokia, doing the same things I did today (well, maybe the day after next, tomorrow is the obigitory write-off “1st day”, BBQ and beer drinking).

It will be a challenging year ahead, I am sure both Nokia and Trolltech ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Qt Software have things to learn from one another. I am personally wishing Trolltech’s seeds of open source will blossom Nokia into a greater thing.

So tonight, while I am unemployed, am going to live it up! and… uh… well… write some code (having small kids really saps your energy) and get more familiar with scratchbox2. (which thankfully uses a real cross toolchain).

I feel it is a bit like Christmas… So, if you talk to a Troll today, shake his/her hand and tell him/her thanks for making the world a more peaceful place.

5 Responses to “bye bye Trolltech…”

» Posted by Bradley T. Hughes
 on Monday, June 16, 2008 @ 09:55

Damn, I was wanting to post exactly the same blog, but you beat me to it! :D

» Posted by aep
 on Monday, June 16, 2008 @ 10:17

nouuuu. Well i hope you’ll get a replacement term for “beeing a Troll” then.
Beeing a “Nok” ? ewww..
This really hurts the cult status of Troll… err.. well whatever you call what remains.
Anyway, I wish you the best of luck. Hope you are allowed to keep the cool shirts, haha.

» Posted by Miha
 on Monday, June 16, 2008 @ 12:51

Hope to have Nokia phone with Qtopia in near future ….

and hope that Qt remains fully opensource … no enterprise products please!

» Posted by Riddle
 on Monday, June 16, 2008 @ 15:35

> no enterprise products please
I’m not sure they’d want to.

According to the KDE Free Qt Foundation agreement, page 3, section 3, if Nokia doesn’t release a new Free Qt for a year, with all of the functionality of Non-Free Qt, then KDE gets Qt under a BSD license.

» Posted by AlekSi
 on Monday, June 16, 2008 @ 15:54

Huh? “Qt Software”? What a silly name… :/ “Trolltech division” is a much better.

Good luck you all, Moomintrolls! :)



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