We have a commerical license for Charts on the server side of things. I'll probably switch this out to use Chart.js.
We use professional support quite often. This is normally a result of an issue with Qt and in most cases a parity issue between mobile platforms. I think we should be done using support with 5.5 as our required features are finally working on Andriod and iOS.
I don't use any commercial features on our mobile platforms, aside from being able to be on the right side of things in the App stores. The QtQuickCompiler, which I attempted to use was crashing on Android 5.0 with Qt5.4, and I never saw much advantage to it, so I disabled it.
Again, I'd like to reiterate I think it is premature to kill the Indie mobile license when the mobile platforms have __FINALLY__ reached parity. And have just added real valuable mobile features like:
-- BT4.0
-- Location services
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To: "interest@qt-project.org" <interest@qt-project.org>
Subject: Re: [Interest] Indie Mobil Program terminated?
From: Preet <prismatic.proj...@gmail.com>
To: "interest@qt-project.org" <interest@qt-project.org>
Subject: Re: [Interest] Indie Mobil Program terminated?
Why Apple and Google give their dev tools free ? They don't make money
from long tail either but they
know that getting successful apps you need to have this long tail also.
To be fair this is because they don't make money from the tools, they get money by taking a cut of your sales (so called 'democratization'). These probably aren't valid avenues for Qt. I think its difficult to come up with a business model to sell software that's good enough to sustain your company, especially when your code base is mostly open source under a libre license.
As a side note, I'm kind of curious as to how many people buy a commerical license of Qt just to deploy it on platforms where LGPL isn't allowed vs people that are just after commercial-only features and support.
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