Qtextended.org will be shutdown.

Thomas HOCEDEZ thomas.hocedez at free.fr
Thu May 20 11:56:36 CEST 2010


Le 20/05/2010 05:49, lorn.potter at nokia.com a écrit :
> Sad to say, http://qtextended.org will be shutting down permanently.
>
> This web site will be disappearing into the history of the web archive.
>
> In a matter of 3 weeks or so, we will be dusting off the cobwebs from the
> power buttons and all the content and files will be deleted from this web
> site, and will no longer be accessible from here.
> The files will be available for download until then.
>
> I was originally hired at Trolltech as Qtopia Community Liaison/Manager to
> (among other things) develop and run this web site in 2003, so this comes to
> me with a bit of a heavy heart.
>
> Back then, the Sharp Zaurus was king, and Opie was the communities
> effort/fork of Qtopia.
>
> A lot of changes have taken place since that time. Nokia bought Trolltech in
> 2008, and discontinued work on Qtopia/Qt Extended. Since then, Qt has taken
> over Nokia, the worlds largest provider of mobile phones.
>
> The Openmoko community has keep up maintenance of Qtopia, for which I am
> thankful (it's still the best open source gui for the Neo)
>
> Thankfully, I am still a troll and working with the most awesome cross
> platform framework. Once a troll, always a troll, someone has said.
>
> and as a famous Australian once said, "such is life..."
>
>
> --
> Lorn Potter
> Senior Software Engineer, Nokia, Qt Development Frameworks
>
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Actually, sad to read ! Hope someone will host a mirror of this site.
Is it possible ?


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Thomas HOCEDEZ




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