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Re:A Picture of Java in 2020 by ehvatum on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @10:01AM (#24554443)
I dread the day Siemens inevitably buys Qt (it will happen) and the license structure changes to $65k/per-seat buy-in to the “base” toolkit which includes QObject and nothing else. Also, a $7k/year per-seat maintenance fee for “base”.

If you want the QtGui module, look north of $100k buy-in.

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Re:A Picture of Java in 2020 by neutronicus on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @10:36AM (#24554865)
They certainly extract their pound of flesh for Parasolid

Which to be fair is a very impressive piece of technology

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