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

[Roland Hughes]

There are plenty of C++ developers.

They don't work for the slave wages JavaScript hackers do, but there are 
plenty of C++ developers. More graduate college every year. I've never 
seen a paid C++ Internship that didn't see dozens of candidates.

On 3/22/21 9:39 AM, Vlad Stelmahovsky wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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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>
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>
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Vlad

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