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Posted by lorn
 in Qt, Qtopia, KDE
 on Monday, June 16, 2008 @ 19:55

New Nokia Sign

Well,
I start work for a different company today, namely Nokia. Perhaps you have heard of them? No? Well, they used to make rubber boots but now make phones. Lot’s of them. They have a few employees. Lot’s of them. and now, a few more, thanks to the (more or less) peaceful assimilation of Trolltech.

Am I worried? A bit. The management structure at Nokia is overbearing, not like Trolltech’s lean and mean machine. I doubt I will see the CEO of Nokia getting drunk and wrestling with engineers any time soon. I doubt I will ever be called to a meeting with him to pick my brain about community matters, much less even get an email from him. I liked that about Trolltech. The openness, the friendliness.
Hopefully my boss will stop wearing his shoes so much. He used to go barefoot a lot more than he does now. I liked that about him.

Today, I start work for Nokia, sitting in the same desk (I hope), loging into the same machines (I hope), and continuing my work from yesterday (except today is the BBQ beer fest.. wweeeeeeeeeee!), on the Qtopia SDK, on the n8×0 and Neo devices. I still get to work with the greatest multi licensed cross platform toolkit ever - Qt. I get to use the greatest and Kool Desktop Environment - blackboxqt! heh and also - KDE.

Best of all - I get a new phone and some Nokia schwag.

I, for one, welcome our new Nokia overlords!

4 Responses to “hello Nokia!”

» Posted by Thomas Zander
 on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 @ 06:42

Good pic, when I came to the Oslo office this morning the TT sign was silently replaced with a Nokia one. :)

» Posted by David Johnson
 on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 @ 16:39

blackboxqt? What is that? Did Brad write a custom WM for Trolls? Inquiring minds want to know!

» Posted by Nico Cesar
 on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 @ 23:06

Wow! shocking news! (and great news btw), congratulations!!

» Posted by powerfox
 on Thursday, June 19, 2008 @ 15:30

Didn’t think they would change company’s name. Anywhere, it seems that http://trolltech.com/ is still alive.