On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 2:01 AM, Bo Thorsen <b...@fioniasoftware.dk> wrote: > Den 18-04-2012 10:33, John Layt skrev: >> It is a trade-off, but not entirely one-way. They get to sell your code, but >> the money raised goes towards supporting Qt. > > Actually, I see this more as a "yes, you can buy commercial support". It > closes one of the objections my customers have. Of course, I usually > convince them that I'm all the support they need :) But it is a question > I've heard so often with OSS software, and it's one of the things > non-OSS people are concerned about. > > It doesn't look like Digia is using this to fund a lot of new Qt > development, but if they use it to support older Qt versions, this is a > great thing as well (assuming those patches go to the OSS Qt). People > paid on OSS projects should do the boring parts :)
A quick update from qt-project: Digia may not be contributing a lot to new development (yet) but they have been contributing quite a bit (a quick grep shows ~1500 patches with them as author) to Qt4 and they have been doing a great job so far. Girish _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
