Re:Qt Could Go Proprietary, KDE Relationship and Qt-Based Fr...
by terminalcommand on Monday June 01, 2020 @04:03AM
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Free as in beer and free as in freedom debate again :).
Propriatery for me means closed source, not free (as in freedom). All the free applications that spy on you do not share their source code, therefore are in nature propriatery.
As far as I understand Qt considers to put a 12-month delay before opening up its source code.
I think this would be a zero-sum game for Qt in the long term. They will continue to milk their existing commercial userbase, but lose the support of the community.
Propriatery for me means closed source, not free (as in freedom). All the free applications that spy on you do not share their source code, therefore are in nature propriatery.
As far as I understand Qt considers to put a 12-month delay before opening up its source code.
I think this would be a zero-sum game for Qt in the long term. They will continue to milk their existing commercial userbase, but lose the support of the community.