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Major mobile alliance go for GTK+

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Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics, and Vodafone recently announced the LiMo Alliance which aims to provide its members with a shared Linux platform for mobile phones. Not many details are known yet, but one of the things mentioned in their Architecture Abstract is that this new mobile platform will be using GTK+ for its GUI. So along with Nokia's Maemo platform and the recently announced OpenMoko platform things are looking very good for GTK+ in the mobile space.

not really that bug of a deal

how exactly are things looking good for GTK+ when the only reason that it got picked up is that it is a lot easier to steer than Qtopia. As a matter of fact GTK is way behind QT in the mobile market but the whole idea of having a company behind an OSS project seems to be frightening to execs who care only about the profit...
I hope I'm dead wrong and something good comes out of this decision but past events similar to this one does not really give me much hope.