[Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

[Atlant Schmidt]

Chuck:

> Adding LGPL as a license option had an enormous impact on
> the commercial business but it also grew the number of users
> by an order of magnitude over the same time period.

  But all of those new LGPL users were *NOT* paying to
  use Qt (except for those that bought support contracts).

  An enormous-but-non-paying user base still supports
  my argument that going FOSS decreases the commercial
  value of a software property.

                              Atlant


-----Original Message-----
From: interest-bounces+aschmidt=dekaresearch.com at qt-project.org [mailto:interest-bounces+aschmidt=dekaresearch.com at qt-project.org] On Behalf Of chuck.piercey at nokia.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 11:24 AM
To: Scott.Bloom at onshorecs.com; bm_witness at yahoo.com; interest at qt-project.org
Subject: Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia

Adding LGPL as a license option had an enormous impact on the commercial business but it also grew the number of users by an order of magnitude over the same time period.

Chuck Piercey
http://www.linkedin.com/in/cpiercey


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