[Interest] Indie Mobil Program terminated?

John C. Turnbull ozemale at ozemail.com.au
Fri Jul 10 19:03:16 CEST 2015


Yeah but I am adding royalties.



> On 11 Jul 2015, at 03:00, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Friday 10 July 2015 18:35:24 John C. Turnbull wrote:
>> Have ONE Qt product which includes all the bells and whistles and all the
>> ports but TWO licenses; an in-house license for those who do not sell their
>> products and a commercial license for those who do.
>> 
>> The in-house license could be sold for about $50 per month and includes
>> support and upgrades.
>> 
>> The commercial license is either free or something nominal like $10 per
>> month plus 5% of sales.
>> 
>> That way *everyone* can afford to use Qt, *everyone* has access to all the
>> features and platform, *nobody* has to worry about lawyers and The Qt
>> Company can make a fortune even if just a few of the resulting apps make it
>> in the big time with massive sales.
>> 
>> It's a win-win-win-win situation!
> 
> That's win-win-lose. It still fails the math test.
> 
> The Indie licence that generated this discussion was $25 per month plus a cut 
> and it did not generate enough revenue to cover the costs of The Qt Company. 
> You're proposing to lower it to $10 per month.
> 
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> Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
>  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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