The LGPL was a double edged sword.. There is NO doubt it increased the usage of Qt in the commercial world..
However, I know of many customers who dropped commercial licenses, because in reality, there was no reason to pay for it if you had experienced Qt devs on staff.. So the could Trolltech afford it question, really was could TrollTech afford the loss of revenue... Scott -----Original Message----- From: Shriramana Sharma [mailto:samj...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 8:33 AM To: chuck.pier...@nokia.com Cc: Scott Aron Bloom; bm_witn...@yahoo.com; interest@qt-project.org Subject: Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 8:53 PM, <chuck.pier...@nokia.com> wrote: > Adding LGPL as a license option had an enormous impact on the commercial business but it also grew the number of users by an order of magnitude over the same time period. So IMHO even though one may think Nokia didn't take proper care of Qt, one big thing they contributed to Qt was spending the money LGPLing it. Trolltech probably could never have done that themselves. -- Shriramana Sharma _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
