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

[Vlad Stelmahovsky]

The problem with companies, moving away from Qt, laying only partially with
weird licensing rules, which constantly changes (and this is annoying,
agreed)
The problem mostly with lack of C++ developers.

On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 1:47 PM Roland Hughes <roland at logikalsolutions.com>
wrote:

> On 3/22/21 7:25 AM, Vlad Stelmahovsky wrote:
>
> oops.
> suddenly all the FUD becomes obsoleted
>
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 11:49 AM Allan Sandfeld Jensen <kde at carewolf.com>
> 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.
>>
>>
> Hmmm..
>
> Just this year is when they flushed Qt. That's what the people working
> there tell me.
>
> The reality Vlad is that companies are dumping Qt wholesale.
>
> Even Jason's company, you remember Jason right? QML's biggest, and
> possibly __only__, fan. Even his company dumped Qt. The medical device
> clients I've worked for have also dumped Qt.
>
> It isn't the FUD that is obsolete, just the management of Qt.
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-- 
Best regards,
Vlad
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