On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 11:55 AM Konstantin Shegunov <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 4:36 PM Lars Knoll <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> One is a change in policy regarding the LTS releases, where the LTS part of >> a release is in the future going to be restricted to commercial customers. >> All bug fixes will (as agreed on the Qt Contributor Summit) go into dev >> first. Backporting bug fixes is something that the Qt Company will take care >> of for these LTS branches. We’ve seen over the past that LTS support is >> something mainly required by large companies, and should hopefully help us >> get some more commercial support for developing Qt further. > > > This all sounds like a spanking for the LGPL users, and it really is. Leaves > a really bad aftertaste, especially for those that actively try to give > something back (even if it's a small something) as a "compensation" for using > the LGPL license. I don't think anyone would be against bigger businesses > pitching in more into development (moneywise), but as a one-man-show the feel > is that I've been penalized for not paying the rather insane license fee. > >> The third change is that The Qt Company will in the future also offer a >> lower priced product for small businesses. That small business product is >> btw not limited to mobile like the one Digia had some years ago, but covers >> all of Qt for Device Creation. > > > I see a couple of issues here. Firstly, 100k/year *turnover* isn't a small > business, that's a nano-company (i.e. 1-2 devs max) and if they're providing > a device alongside the software that 100k is going to be eaten in no time. > Notice we are not talking profit here, but raw revenue. Whoever from sales > came up with that number, really did a botched up job with it. On that note, > even if we accept that it's applicable, the straightforward math shows you > want to bill 0.5% - 2.5% of the total turnover, so while this sounds good > initially it really isn't that shiny when you crunch the numbers. That > offering is stillborn from my point of view.
Agree with Konstantin that the definition of a small business isn't realistic. The realistic one is up to 5 developers and up 500k/year USD sales. Qt-company may wish to look at the past experience with its failed tiny-license and mobile-license. You cannot get from such companies more than 500 greens a year, and 300 is even more realistic. Personally, I've convinced management to pay 25 USD/month for the Mobile license to support Qt-development, but we never used the license and continued open-source. At a certain point the charges have stopped with an insane offer and insane pricing. So, hello, Qt-company, and consider to make something really friendly for small businesses since we are flexible and really not locked to your offering. Kind regards, Robert _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
