[Development] Changes to Qt offering

[NIkolai Marchenko]

>  None of these changes should affect how Qt is being developed. There
won’t be any changes to Open Governance or the open development model.
But there will likely be changes to the desire of people to develop.
Imagine an opensource contributor making a security fix who knows other
opensource users on older branches aren't going to receive it and there is
no way for him to push it there.

On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 7:11 PM NIkolai Marchenko <enmarantispam at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Just this change in general reads: "We're going to annoy and inconvenience
> as much users as possible so that they buy our stuff"
>
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 7:09 PM NIkolai Marchenko <enmarantispam at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> > The second change is that a Qt Account will be in the future required
>> for binary packages.
>>
>> I would like to raise a serious security issue with this change.
>> Oftentimes, you need qt binaries within a VM. Also, oftentimes, VM is
>> stubborn and refuses to accept pastes.
>> This means people will use much simpler passwords for their Qt accounts,
>> possibly similar passwords with their other stuff so that they don't have
>> to remember too much.
>> All because QtC is a dick and restricts binary downloads for no valid
>> reason at all.
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 7:01 PM Benjamin TERRIER <b.terrier at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Quoting The Qt Company itslef:
>>>
>>> Thanks for your feedback to the new online installer asking for a Qt
>>>> Account signup. We have evaluated the feedback received via the blog,
>>>> various discussion forums, irc and other channels. Based on all these
>>>> comments and discussions with our partners we realize that this was not our
>>>> finest moment.
>>>> Preventing the growth and usage of Qt in the open source community is
>>>> not what we want to happen. We did already see a nice jump in the number of
>>>> Qt Accounts,
>>>> but it was never our intention to make our valued community and
>>>> contributors upset with us or stop using and contributing to Qt.
>>>> *We clearly ill-calculated how asking for a Qt Account with the online
>>>> installer would make our users feel*. A mistake. Sincere apologies.
>>>>
>>> [...]
>>>> *We do hope that this eases your concerns, and that we can continue
>>>> with your trust*.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://www.qt.io/blog/2015/05/06/changing-qt-account-to-be-optional-in-the-online-installer
>>>>
>>>
>>>  So apparently the trust of the QT community os nt a concern anymore...
>>>
>>> Le lun. 27 janv. 2020 à 15:42, NIkolai Marchenko <
>>> enmarantispam at gmail.com> a écrit :
>>>
>>>> I am afraid I do not have other words for this model than : absolutely
>>>> disgusting and a complete dick move. Especially login requirement for
>>>> binaries.
>>>> I don't even understand how distros are now supposed to keep qt code
>>>> safe since constantly pushing qt version up is recipe for problems and
>>>> there will be no critical bugfixes to branches that distros were stabilized
>>>> at.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 5:35 PM Lars Knoll <lars.knoll at qt.io> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> The Qt Company has done some adjustments to the Qt will be offered in
>>>>> the future. Please check out
>>>>> https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-offering-changes-2020 .
>>>>>
>>>>> The change consists of three parts.
>>>>>
>>>>> One is a change in policy regarding the LTS releases, where the LTS
>>>>> part of a release is in the future going to be restricted to commercial
>>>>> customers. All bug fixes will (as agreed on the Qt Contributor Summit) go
>>>>> into dev first. Backporting bug fixes is something that the Qt Company will
>>>>> take care of for these LTS branches. We’ve seen over the past that LTS
>>>>> support is something mainly required by large companies, and should
>>>>> hopefully help us get some more commercial support for developing Qt
>>>>> further.
>>>>>
>>>>> The second change is that a Qt Account will be in the future required
>>>>> for binary packages. Source code will continue to be available as
>>>>> currently. This will simplify distribution and integration with the
>>>>> Marketplace. In addition, we want open source users to contribute to Qt or
>>>>> the Qt ecosystem. Doing so is only possible with a valid Qt Account (Jira,
>>>>> code review and the forums all require a Qt Account).
>>>>>
>>>>> The third change is that The Qt Company will in the future also offer
>>>>> a lower priced product for small businesses. That small business product is
>>>>> btw not limited to mobile like the one Digia had some years ago, but covers
>>>>> all of Qt for Device Creation.
>>>>>
>>>>> None of these changes should affect how Qt is being developed. There
>>>>> won’t be any changes to Open Governance or the open development model.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>> Lars
>>>>>
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