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April 26, 2016

Concerns about Qt's increasing commercial focus


It's not just me. Phoronix is reporting on growing concerns in the Qt community about the project's increasing commercial focus and apparent deprecation of its open source core.

I have said many times in these pages and elsewhere that I really like Qt: it's the right tool for a lot of jobs. But increasingly I've been feeling that any contribution I make in educating users about Qt is benefiting a commercial enterprise and not a community tool. So much so that I am re-surveying other open source multi-platform libraries to use as an alternative to Qt.

If the community no longer has meaningful Qt ownership, a lot of users will no longer be interested.

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