The main guy behind QT, while not the first on the project, he has been the main vision behind all the technical parts for 25 years. He wrote the engine that we now know as webkit and chrome.
He was also a major contributor to KHTML, which was adopted by WebKit, and subsequently Blink. It's the roots of both Safari and Chromium.
His influence is monumental.
I wonder if he himself uses Firefox. That would be a nice irony.
Considering what happened to khtml in the last 15 years I'd use firefox myself. Come to think of it I actually did get one patch into khtml back in the day (exactly one, don't read too much into this), and I now use firefox. I keep thinking I should resurrect the khtml project so we get a good open source engine again - (firefox is more than an engine), but realistically it needs more love than once part time person can give it.
"Lars Knoll is The Qt Company CTO and Qt Project Chief Maintainer. He has been working on Qt for more than 13 years starting as a software engineer to later leading the global Qt engineering team in Nokia before the Digia acquisition in October 2012."
It probably means: "more than 13 years BEFORE the 2012 accusation". Because I already knew Lars Knoll as involved with QT back in 2000 (except if he was just working on the KDE side then).
(“Acquisition”, not “accusation”.)
With QT it could be both :-)
Fair point. :-D
I remember the kerfuffle about QT licensing and KDE. Back then I used KDE and dismissed the concerns. It’s been odd and unfortunate to see those concerns having been at least partially founded.
I feel you're trying to say something with your short comment.
In the Wikipedia entry on The QT Company, he is (still) mentioned as the current CTO.