[Qt-interest] Qt 4.8 and XCode 4.2

[Thiago Macieira]

On Wednesday, 2 de November de 2011 09:04:15 Richard S. Wright Jr. wrote:
> This is why I hate open source. We were a paid license, now it's free for
> everyone, and free so often in life is… worthless.

Funny, I remember customers complaining that their feature requests didn't get 
implemented and that their bug reports didn't get fixed.

You make it sound that Trolltech did everything you asked while you were 
paying for the license.

That was clearly not the case and it's still not the case today. Nothing has 
changed in that front. What has changed is that now you can make it happen if 
you really need it, as you don't depend on one single company to implement the 
feature or fix the bug. You can:

1) pay Digia for commercial support (like you used to with Trolltech)
2) pay any of the many consulting companies in the ecosystem to do it, and 
   they're eager to accept your money (KDAB, ICS, Tieto, Nomovok, etc.)
3) find or hire a developer in your own company or do it yourself
4) talk to the community and convince someone to do it for free
5) do nothing and wait

Back then, you had only options 1 and 5.

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