[Interest] The willy-nilly deletion of convenience methods (was: Mixing Commercial and Open...)

[coroberti]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 2:51 AM Jason H <jhihn at gmx.com> wrote:
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> > > Licensing FUD + death-of-perpetual-license + death-of-OpenSource-LTS +
> > > Qt-6-rolling-out-incomplete + deleted-convenience-methods =
> > > customers-leaving
> >
> > I wonder if the loss of confidence in the current Qt owners can ever be compensated.
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> > Even if TQC took back their critical decisions, I can't imagine that people would ever
> > trust them again. This could cause fatal damage to Qt in the long run if they don't sell
> > it to someone more responsible.
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> Is there anything we can do to maybe block the release of new Qt versions, so that the BSD poison pill clause is triggered? Then we can start over from a BSD license, and maybe get other custodians of the code base?
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> Qt is currently catering to automotive companies, and those sales allow them to neglect other markets. I hope they circle back and get there market segments they have been neglecting.
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> My company abandoned commercial use of Qt as we were in a neglected market segment... Rewrote the app native on each platform. It was painful, but stuffiness routing the band-aid off quickly is the way to go.  I've been lurking hoping to hear good things about QT6 but it looks like The decision to go native was the right one.

Jason, welcome to the club of re-writers.

Are you still using it for mobile platforms?

Kind regards,
Robert