Posted by tranced
Reports are coming in that Nokia has shut down its Qt offices in Australia and laid off the developers responsible for QML. The staff that was laid off were responsible for developing key aspects of the Qt open-source toolkit including the QML user interface layout. At least one of the laid off developers, Lorn Potter, has told the Qt community that he intends to continue working on the toolkit himself but is seeking new employment.
If you aren’t familiar with Qt, it is a C++ framework allows the development of cross-platform mobile and desktop applications. The original developer of the technology was a company called Trolltech, which was purchased by Nokia in 2008. Once Nokia gobbled Qt, the mobile phone giant turned Qt into an open governance model, began accepting independent contributors, and changed licensing for Qt to LGPL from the more restrictive GPL environment.
