[Interest] Oops! Somebody's got a bad case of dependency bloat!

Justin Ferguson jnferguson at gmail.com
Wed Apr 10 22:31:34 CEST 2013


>And yes: The best way would be a >mail to the commercial support...

I've always had a severe distaste for those sorts of arguments that turn
OSS/FS into a form of semi-crippled shareware where if i want it to work i
have to pay; which often enough turns into "travel insurance": insured
against all the reasons you probably wont miss your flight (acts of god v.
Lost taxi driver)
On Apr 10, 2013 3:25 PM, "Christian Dähn" <daehn at asinteg.de> wrote:

> **
>  > On 04/10/2013 10:05 PM, Michael Jackson wrote:
> > >
> > > And just because a "majority" download the installer does not mean
> "ALL". It is YOUR JOB AS A Qt DEVELOPER/MAINTAINER to make MY life easier.
> That is your job.
> > >
> >
> > I think you made a mistake and sent this email to an opensource
> > project's mailing list instead of to your Sysadmin.
>
> In this special case he is right because he addresses Thiago (who works
> for Digia and is partly responsible for the problems we commercial
> customers have to suffer with the new Qt 5 policies).
>
>  And yes: The best way would be a mail to the commercial support...
>
> But: Even the commercial support currently does nothing else as just
> creating a public issue in the Qt-Project bugtracker ;-)
>
> Currently commercial customers more and more are less important and have
> the same priority as any user of the opensource releases... sorry, my
> experiences especially in the last weeks...
>
>  Sadly  none of the devs at Digia seems to have experiences with IT and
> project structures of industrial and enterprise structures / companies -
> that leads to such biased discussions... like a fight between commercial
> (Windows) customers and the Qt devs (Linux/Mac users).
>
> ciao,
>  Chris
>
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