{"id":4666,"date":"2012-06-15T16:53:22","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T21:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4666"},"modified":"2012-06-15T16:53:57","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T21:53:57","slug":"nokias-linux-based-meltemi-platform-melts-amid-layoffs-qt-still-afloat-ars-technica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4666","title":{"rendered":"Nokia\u2019s Linux-based Meltemi platform melts amid layoffs; Qt still afloat"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Meltemi was a Linux-based operating system that was intended to be Nokia\u2019s successor to the S40 feature phone platform. Used in conjunction with the Qt development toolkit, Meltemi was going to be the cornerstone of Nokia\u2019s strategy for connecting the \u201cnext billion\u201d smartphone users.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2012\/06\/nokias-linux-based-meltemi-platform-melts-amid-layoffs-qt-still-afloat\/\">Nokia\u2019s Linux-based Meltemi platform melts amid layoffs; Qt still afloat | Ars Technica<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>It\u2019s worth noting that the Qt toolkit is widely supported by other parties.<\/strong> Nokia\u2019s decision to relicense Qt under the permissive LGPL has made it possible for other smartphone vendors to adopt it as part of their platform. HP was using Qt in webOS and RIM is currently using it as the basis for the development toolkit in its next-generation Blackberry operating system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meltemi was a Linux-based operating system that was intended to be Nokia\u2019s successor to the S40 feature phone platform. Used in conjunction with the Qt development toolkit, Meltemi was going to be the cornerstone of Nokia\u2019s strategy for connecting the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4666\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[604,673,682,436],"class_list":["post-4666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-endups","tag-nokia","tag-qt","tag-smartphones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4666"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4668,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4666\/revisions\/4668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}