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Use our stuff for free and sell your application? That's Qt. Time to give something back

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Oi, Qt Group! Maybe my employer would have thought twice about doing this except that you've let serious bugs rot in your code for over a decade now. Bugs that were reported over a decade ago and confirmed by other pissed off devs when you broke their commercial apps. Which you then promptly closed as resolved, even though everyone could still reproduce them in your latest releases. These are bugs that break people's apps, since there's no equivalent functionality elsewhere in the library, and you'd have to rip out and replace massive chunks of Qt to fix them out of tree, but because you're all about Mobile and Touch you just don't seem to give a toss.

If that's how you treat your commercial customers writing open source code outside of a proprietary license, I shudder to think what you'd do after we were stuck into a license. Each new version seems to remove more and more desktop functionality, and add more and more app crap. Why exactly would we pay you to do this?

If you really wanted to entice licensees, why not bundle it with "properly resolve at least two of the licensee's critical customer-identified and reproducible bug reports a year"? What's that, you just want to rent seek on the codebase, some of which was written by other people at no cost to you, not actually work for that income? Carry on then. Won't see a single penny from us, that's for certain!

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