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

[Allan Sandfeld Jensen]

On Montag, 22. März 2021 10:38:09 CET Roland Hughes wrote:
> 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.
> 
That happened 5 years ago. Comcast was only using QtWebKit from Qt anyway.

'Allan