[Qt-interest] Qt future ...

[Konrad Rosenbaum]

On Thursday 28 April 2011, Ross Bencina wrote:
> Something that is less clear is how many Qt developers Digia now employ.

According to their own press release at the time they already employed a 
significant number of Qt experts before they got this business.

> Without sufficient development resources from each stakeholder Open
> Governance is not very meaningful. With all due respect to Thiago and KDE
> I fear that the whole Open Governance business will basically be a
> KDE/FOSS take-over since individual commercial stakeholders pay money
> precisely to let someone else manage development -- they vote with their
> $ and don't have time to sit on governance comittees (speaking for
> myself at least!).

You usually pay those $ to someone who is quite interested in Qt, like 
Digia, and who will most probably be part of open governance. They will 
naturally try to steer Qt into the direction their customers demand.

> It really is a fascinating political situation. To my mind the best
> placed stakeholder is KDE, with Nokia wasting resources on its dying
> platforms, and Digia being sold a viable support business, but perhaps
> not enough power to maintain a viable commercial library offering. In
> this sense I agree with Gustavo's concerns about Qt Desktop support on
> Windows and OSX. I _hope_ Digia do good things but I havn't seen any
> proactive development roadmap from them, only word of "business as
> usual" for commercial Qt support.

There are two things you can do:

1) invest time: develop enhancements and fixes yourself. And submit them.

2) invest money: make others do all this for you.

If you go with option 2 there are plenty of choices, Digia is just one of 
them. Have a look at http://qt.nokia.com/services-partners/ for a (probably 
incomplete) list of choices...

Well, there are these options as well:

3) do nothing and despair.

4) complain all the time without effect.

5) just hope for the best.

..but they are not the best options of course... ;-)



	Konrad
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