[Interest] rebooted QtWebKit for Qt4??

[Donald Carr]

@rene: I would recommend reading:

https://woboq.com/blog/verdigris-qt-without-moc.html

to contextualize Copperspice's "wins"

It is sad to see people miss the necessity for hardware accelerated UI
that QML addresses; Qt widgets backing onto QPainter was extremely
problematic to accelerate and the Qt company addressed this with
scenegraph/QML.
Feel free to hate on QML, just be aware you appear to be missing the
driving impetus behind it which was not fashion but necessity.

Widgets is "done"; it is kinda hard to get a more stable API than one
which is no longer being actively developed.

Cheerio,
Donald

On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 4:15 AM Roland Hughes
<roland at logikalsolutions.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 7/11/20 11:06 AM, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> > Not my words ... and there must be money in it so it can't be entirely worthless ;)
> >
> >
> If there was "money in it" we wouldn't have FUD licensing practices and
> statements about making people buy QtCreator. You get that from a dying
> company. I'm old. I've seen a lot of companies die. They all engage in
> this death spiral of trying to royalty and license "everything" in hopes
> of squeezing out just enough money to survive.
>
> There have been many spectacular examples over the years. While it is
> not quite as spectacular as the Qt Company implosion that appears to be
> going on.
>
> https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fimage.shutterstock.com%2Fz%2Fstock-photo-building-demolition-by-implosion-image-of-a-shot-sequence-101827762.jpg&f=1&nofb=1
>
> https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fimage.shutterstock.com%2Fz%2Fstock-photo-building-demolition-by-implosion-image-of-a-shot-sequence-101827765.jpg&f=1&nofb=1
>
> Wang was a great case study. They tried to license everything and
> royalty everything. In the ultimate human sacrifice they changed
> licensing policy after the fact stating that the OS license could not
> transfer with the machine. You had to buy a new OS license _at list_
> when you bought a used Wang. For over a decade this had not been the
> case. Even "small" used Wang computers sold for $20K because you got a
> complete system. The day after that decision they stopped selling
> because Wang wanted a hideous amount of money for a "new" license. It
> was something like $40 or $60K. The millions of dollars in used
> inventory dealers held became not only worthless, but a liability. They
> had to pay someone to haul the stuff away when they went under. Yes,
> they all went under. It wasn't too many days/weeks after the
> announcement that people and companies stopped buying Wang computers.
> Nobody was willing to pay half a million for something they would have
> to pay to throw away when they could spend about the same money on other
> midrange computers that still would have resale value.
>
> It didn't matter that Wang was the only platform _anywhere_ that could
> do multi-person document editing. Something like 7-8 people could all be
> editing the same part of the same document at the same time and see the
> changes real-time. Even Google Docs hasn't caught up to what Wang had
> back in the late 1980s. Wang just had the limitation of Green Screens.
>
> The first deadly drug you see a failing company reach for is royalties.
> The second deadly drug is license roulette. After that it doesn't matter
> if they have a completely unique product; companies will simply choose
> to live without it.
>
> The Wang customers gave the document people AT computers with
> WordPerfect and told them to pass around floppies until Netware came along.
>
> Yes, there was a time when WordPerfect ruled the land.
>
> https://www.wordperfect.com/en/
>
> Know what did them in? Licensing. A ghost of a product is still around,
> but the company is long since dead. They are still trying to get $400
> for the full package.
>
> https://www.wordperfect.com/en/product/professional-edition/
>
>
>
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