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

[Roland Hughes]

On 3/22/21 4:07 AM, Bernhard Lindner wrote:
>> 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.
>
> 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.

Dude,

Comcast, TimeWarner, and all of those other set-top box vendors formed 
an OpenSource project to create RDK so they could kick Qt to the curb.

They aren't coming back.

Opera moved to RDK.

Doubtful they would ever come back.

When John Deere can no longer get illegal aliens to work for illegal 
alien wages with Qt (which it seems they are having desperate trouble 
right now) that will be the end in both the Ag and automotive 
industries. The major automakers tend to pay Qt developers even less 
than John Deere. Ordinarily those postings, phone calls, and emails only 
last about 3 days. It's been about 3 weeks now though it feels longer. 
They are desperate enough they've even started coming up on their rate. 
Still not a respectable rate (especially given the outlandish prices 
Deere has on their equipment) but they haven't raised the rate in a 
decade. It appears the usual culprits, Tata, InfoSys, Cognizant, Cap 
Gemini, et-al, are out of people to sneak in.

That will be the official death knell. When Deere flushes its installed 
base. There will be no coming back from that.

Ford has already proven they can successfully toss out infotainment 
architecture. They threw Microsoft out after MS helped them create a 
buggy horrible Sync and rewrote Sync with Qt. The people who did the 
port probably still work at Ford so it would be old hat for them.

The sad reality is everybody with a set-top box or willing to pull down 
Opera can see just how well RDK works. The greatest of the great 
unknowns can cheaply be removed for the decision makers by pointing that 
out.

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