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

[Henry Skoglund]

On 2021-03-22 11:48, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> 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

It was in late 2013 if this announcement could be viewed as the launch:
https://press.opera.com/2013/12/13/opera-launches-the-industrys-first-commercial-grade-chromium-blink-engine-designed-for-rdk-set-top-boxes/