Except that Apple are actively stiffling cross-licensing, while freely using others IP without paying until dragged to court. Nokia is a perfect example. Nokia's lawyers tried many times to get Apple to cross license. No deal.

This is exactly the tactics that Apple are using. The lawyers of nokia many many times tried to cross-licence with apple, as apple seems to be totally fine using others IP with a free hand. No ball, until it went to court. Many courts in many countries. When it's stupid and logical things like multi-touch, then this court-based stifling of innovation and usage is killing the industry slowly.

Anyone who doesn't believe it, try youtubing from a company other than one of the majors. Moving recently to Germany has highlighted just how little there is that isn't claimed by the big 4. Seriously, 7/10 videos I click through to display "Unfortunately, this -music-content is not available in Germany because GEMA has not granted the respective music publishing rights.". In this case, it was UMG. Surprise surprise. On of all things, a Rammstein video. What?!

Yes I know I'm feeding the troll here. Sure, go ahead and "report me". Nokia actually has a quite open social media policy. So long as we don't talk about unanounced products, then nokia as a company is perfectly fine with their employees "connecting" with the greater world around us.

Ahh, but putting in the effort on the other hand, shows that you do give a shit about customers. Prime example, nokia just released an updated web browser for the nokia 5800. Would you call that a bloat? Or something actually useful to punters out there that may actually still have working handsets after all this time?

Nope, just an employee. Not afraid to be anonymous either.

Like Apple, we care about legacy handsets. There are still updates coming out for Symbian 9.5 handsets.

Seriously, how can this be seen as anything but a clearing of work-area? 7000 engineers that couldn't build a killer product?! Even meego was more pipe-dream than real product. People seem to forget that nokia has a multi-pronged strategy going on. It's not just the microsoft deal going on, there's also the Next Billion project, and Rich Green's Disruptive Technologies. I think this move has been nothing but necessary.

Don't be afraid, Qt's future is secured.

No it wasn't (profitable), that was why Eirik and Haarvard shopped it around. We were all just lucky that nokia took an interest in us, thanks due strongly to Sebastian Nystrom.

Heard. Noted. Not yet (but soon).

Honestly, had they mandated silverlight, and included this in the silverlight install, I think they may have gotten it to most of the users that they would need to have it anyway, and pissed less people off in the process. Welcome to the new (steve) microsoft, same as the old (bill) microsoft.

!First. Fail!

Stimulate the development community, and the software buyers will follow.