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…”
Damn, I was wanting to post exactly the same blog, but you beat me to it! ![]()
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.
Hope to have Nokia phone with Qtopia in near future ….
and hope that Qt remains fully opensource … no enterprise products please!
> 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.
Huh? “Qt Software”? What a silly name… :/ “Trolltech division” is a much better.
Good luck you all, Moomintrolls! ![]()