[Interest] Mixing Commercial and Open Source license for, different, projects

[Roland Hughes]

On 3/18/21 6:55 AM, Christian Gagneraud wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Mar 2021 at 00:41, Christian Gagneraud <chgans at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 18 Mar 2021 at 03:32, Roland Hughes <roland at logikalsolutions.com> wrote:
>>>> On 3/17/21 6:00 AM, Konrad Rosenbaum wrote:
>>>>> Out of curiosity: what alternatives are people settling on?
>>> Forgot to mention. Comcast dumped Qt in favor of Webkit some time late
>>> last year. You probably were on the SPAM and phone call list. We all
>>> know just how technical the people pimps put on the phone are, but here
>>> is what they told me.
>>>
>>> FUD + death-of-perpetual-license = abandon-Qt
>> FUD from Qt + FUD from Roland = people getting tired
>>
>> I'm tired, and looking every single day how to get rid of Qt.
>> I'm not happy about the situation, but it forces me to rethink.
>>
>> My main grief is that Qt doesn't seem to care about C++.
>> What was their last contribution to the standard?
>>
>> One day, C++ will have introspection, and  it will come from boost, not Qt...
>> So sad!
> Tip to whoever:
> Qt = Atlassian.
> Expensive stuff for big companies that think you can buy success.

The flaw in that analogy is the big companies are banning Qt's use. The 
only medical device projects I'm hearing about still using Qt are things 
that started over a year ago or things being created by very tiny firms. 
The deep pockets went elsewhere. Konrad and I are just trying to 
identify where. Qt licensing changes locked Qt out of many lucrative 
markets.

I concur with your comment on C++. It does feel Qt has abandoned C++. 
The recent willy-nilly deletion of convenience functions causing 
thousands of hours of expensive pain for existing products/projects only 
adds credence to that feeling.

There seems to be a deep religious divide between C++ and Qt and it is 
over the CoW (Copy on Write) Qt relies on. (Which also means you can't 
really have exceptions.) On low powered embedded systems with horrible 
dynamic memory allocation CoW can really save your bacon. I didn't think 
it made much difference on grid powered desktops, until I stumbled into 
a situation where it did.

https://www.logikalsolutions.com/wordpress/information-technology/qlist/

Almost 16 minutes to build a QList that Qt built in about half a second.

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