Moto said, “We were over Qt, anyway.”
我预料的应验了。第一个就是MOTO。不过这个对MOTO的打击可是够大的。切换到另一个平台不是说换就换的。从打击对手角度来看，NOKIA的这次收购太成功了。
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Motorola responds to Nokia’s Trolltech buy Jan. 30, 2008 Motorola has responded to the news earlier this week that rival Nokia plans to purchase Trolltech, long-time supplier of the graphical development framework used in Motorola’s Linux phones. In a nutshell, the response boils down to, “We were over Qt, anyway.” Christy Wyatt, who heads up Motorola’s software platforms and ecosystems group, told LinuxDevices, “A year ago, we announced that we had founded LiMo [the Linux Mobile Foundation], along with five other companies, to collaborate on mobile Linux [story]. Since then, many other companies have joined. As part of its first specification, LiMo specifies GTK, and we intend to comply.” Wyatt admitted that Motorola has no definitive “cut-over date” yet planned for switching from Qt to GTK. She said, “We did evaluate qt4. What we’re using is an older version. Limo hasn’t published that part of the framework yet, and there’s really been no reason for us to rush ahead of the Foundation in moving to GTK.” Wyatt said that in the near term, Motorola is working to document the places in its MotoDev tools where the Qt API is exposed. She said, “We’re documenting them so developers will know when they’re touching a part of the API that might go away.” Asked about Motorola’s dependence on Trolltech for development tools, or for other parts of Motorola’s Linux phone stack, such as webkit integration, Wyatt said there was no reason for concern. “MotoDev Studio is in no way, shape, or form built around Qt tools,” she said, adding, “We did actually buy out a part of our license earlier. And our web UI framework, that’s a Motorola implementation. We’ve had it working for a long time.” Wyatt concluded, “In the mobile Linux space, Motorola believes in open standards and open source. We encourage Nokia and others to participate in the open development model [exemplified by] LiMo.” Asked specifically if she thought Motorola’s five-year long embrace of Linux had hurt or helped it, Wyatt laughed and replied, “It’s hard to draw a direct connection between one program and a company the size of Motorola. Adopting Linux lets us participate in a thriving open source ecosystem. Linux is a long-term bet for any company. The investiment — our investment — is toward leveraging ecosystem, working with partners in the supply ecosystem. We’re very happy with our Linux products.”
