Comments on: Qt to be available for free under LGPL http://successfulsoftware.net/2009/01/14/qt-to-be-available-for-free-under-lgpl/ Successful software requires more than just good programming. Sun, 13 May 2012 08:40:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Qt visual artefacts on Mac OS X 10.6 « Successful Software http://successfulsoftware.net/2009/01/14/qt-to-be-available-for-free-under-lgpl/#comment-12985 Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:19:15 +0000 http://successfulsoftware.net/?p=1281#comment-12985 [...] Developer releases of 10.6 have been available for a while – I believe the Qt team should have burnt the midnight oil to make sure they had a release that properly supported 10.6 as soon as it became generally available.  I know that isn’t easy given the size of the Qt framework and Apple’s penchant for secretiveness. But that is the game they are in and that is what I expect. I think they have seriously dropped the ball here, and this is coming from a longtime Qt fan-boy. Perhaps they have spread themselves a bit too thin by moving to LGPL licensing. [...]

]]> By: Sylvain http://successfulsoftware.net/2009/01/14/qt-to-be-available-for-free-under-lgpl/#comment-11807 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 04:33:42 +0000 http://successfulsoftware.net/?p=1281#comment-11807 … and what about customers like me who bought Qt few months ago?

]]> By: Andy Brice http://successfulsoftware.net/2009/01/14/qt-to-be-available-for-free-under-lgpl/#comment-11753 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:25:32 +0000 http://successfulsoftware.net/?p=1281#comment-11753 IIRC Trolltech were making a loss before Nokia acquired them, but I am guessing that this was due to the cost of development and fast growth, not the cost of sales. Each sale is several thousands Euros (lots more for a big shop) and it is pretty much all done online.

]]> By: Tony Edgecombe http://successfulsoftware.net/2009/01/14/qt-to-be-available-for-free-under-lgpl/#comment-11752 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:18:37 +0000 http://successfulsoftware.net/?p=1281#comment-11752 I think the most likely reason they did this is their license revenues weren’t covering the cost of sales.

I hope it works out, there are surprisingly few good cross platform solutions at the moment.

]]> By: n! Labs http://successfulsoftware.net/2009/01/14/qt-to-be-available-for-free-under-lgpl/#comment-11751 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:19:00 +0000 http://successfulsoftware.net/?p=1281#comment-11751 I think the fact that Qt cannot be statically linked under the LGPL license will still leave room for wxWidgets…it would be nice if Qt could be statically linked and I would then change over.

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