Qt Could Go Proprietary, KDE Relationship and Qt-Based Free Software in Jeopardy

Re:Qt Could Go Proprietary, KDE Relationship and Qt-Based Fr... by welterde on Monday June 01, 2020 @10:17AM (#23378704)

That sounds like a real fun customer group (which I personally would try to get rid of asap).

And open source vs. closed source doesn't really drastically change anything here, since you could just charge support per installation (and they could try to lie about how many installations there are, etc.).

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Re:Qt Could Go Proprietary, KDE Relationship and Qt-Based Fr... by stormdennis on Monday June 01, 2020 @11:48AM (#23379822)

That's small businesses for you. Not all of them are like that by any means but enough are to be difficult to consider losing, income wise, with no guarantee I could replace them. As I said, if they had the source code, I think they'd try and exploit some third world coder to both maintain and extend the product and say goodbye to me

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Re:Qt Could Go Proprietary, KDE Relationship and Qt-Based Fr... by easytiger on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @12:56PM (#23393200)

> I think they'd try and exploit some third world coder to both maintain and extend the product and say goodbye to me

Care to elaborate on that statement?

Is there something wrong with jobs at local market rates? No different to how you are paid.

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Re:Qt Could Go Proprietary, KDE Relationship and Qt-Based Fr... by stormdennis on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @05:40PM (#23396661)

People who are willing to pirate software other people in their industry pay for, want to pay zero if they can. It's all about cheap.

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