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 pjmlp on Monday June 01, 2020 @11:25AM (#23379524)

My own experience is that trying to sell software to GNU/Linux customers is a lost battle, unless it is behind a server wall.

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Re:Qt Could Go Proprietary, KDE Relationship and Qt-Based Fr... by seba_dos1 on Monday June 01, 2020 @11:54AM (#23379876)

I've paid for plenty of GNU/Linux software. It has to be Free Software though, otherwise I'm not interested.

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Re:Qt Could Go Proprietary, KDE Relationship and Qt-Based Fr... by pjmlp on Monday June 01, 2020 @03:55PM (#23382978)

The confirmation that "evil proprietary business" companies should just focus on customers using Apple, Google and Microsoft platforms.

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Re:Qt Could Go Proprietary, KDE Relationship and Qt-Based Fr... by welterde on Monday June 01, 2020 @04:35PM (#23383456)

Thus giving the maximum possible motivation for people to develop their own (FOSS or not) clones/implementations. Bonus points for including actively hostile things like DRM or requiring license servers or hardware tokens to improve the user experience.

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