Summary
Nokia is implementing substantial layoffs, affecting 10,000 employees, with 700 being developers. Among these, the entire 100-person core Qt development team, which Nokia primarily sponsors, is being dismissed. This decision draws strong criticism, particularly given the team's respected expertise in C++ development, suggesting they could have been transitioned to new platforms rather than fired. The move is seen as another strategic misstep for Nokia, following previous errors like rejecting Android and persisting with the Symbian platform.
Recently, Nokia announced that they would lay off around 10000 employees, 700 of them are developers. Among these 700 developers, 100 are the core developers of the open source project Qt.
Nokia is the main sponsor of the open source project Qt. According to Mirko Boehm, the core Qt team has around 100 people, this means that Nokia fires the whole Qt team.
He criticized Nokia's decision, he thought that a responsible CEO should persuade the team to move to other platforms.
Qt team is experienced, they are respectful in C++ development, there should be no problem for them to move to a new platform. But Nokia decides to fire the current team and hire a group of new developers.
Nokia made many mistakes in recent years.
- They refused to join the Android camp and later they were defeated by Android.
- They still adhere to the unacceptable Symbian platform.
- They continue to release crap.
- ...
Ok, now one more mistake: fire the Qt team.
Reference : http://blog.jobbole.com/22252/
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