The growing disconnect between KDE and the Qt Company
([Development] Apr 9, 2020 14:17 UTC (Thu) (corbet))
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Here's [1]a message posted by Olaf Schmidt-Wischhöfer to the kde-community mailing list detailing the current state of discussions between the KDE community, the Qt development project, and the Qt Company. It seems they are not going entirely well. " But last week, the company suddenly informed both the KDE e.V. board and the KDE Free QT Foundation that the economic outlook caused by the Corona virus puts more pressure on them to increase short-term revenue. As a result, they are thinking about restricting ALL Qt releases to paid license holders for the first 12 months. They are aware that this would mean the end of contributions via Open Governance in practice. "
There is [2]a response from the Qt Company that doesn't add a whole lot.
[1] https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-community/2020q2/006098.html
[2] https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-and-open-source
There is [2]a response from the Qt Company that doesn't add a whole lot.
[1] https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-community/2020q2/006098.html
[2] https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-and-open-source
The growing disconnect between KDE and the Qt Company
The Qt Company should consider the history of XFree86, the original SSH, ZFS vs OpenZFS, etc. If required, there will be a fork, and the fork will win. Qt is too important.
The growing disconnect between KDE and the Qt Company
The Qt Company should consider the history of XFree86, the original SSH, ZFS vs OpenZFS, etc. If required, there will be a fork, and the fork will win. Qt is too important.
The growing disconnect between KDE and the Qt Company
Heh. I guess this old article of mine is relevant 😉
[1]https://lwn.net/Articles/282261/
[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/282261/
The growing disconnect between KDE and the Qt Company
Heh. I guess this old article of mine is relevant 😉
[1]https://lwn.net/Articles/282261/
[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/282261/
The growing disconnect between KDE and the Qt Company
Even after considering the recent Coronavirus dip, [1]QTCOM is still up 200% in the last 12 months.
Either the shareholders are not well informed about the grim financial outlook, or the KDE e.V. board was told a bunch of excuses.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/companies/QTCOM.HE