On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 11:23 AM Volker Hilsheimer <volker.hilshei...@qt.io> wrote:
> But the other question is who operates the service. It doesn’t matter if > the service is Open Source if the community doesn't trust the operating > entity. > Obviously, but Jason has a point. I can even give you an example: When was it decided that your company should start sending unsolicited advertisement emails? I get these weird things for some time now, which I didn't use to get a few years ago, mind you. And they end with: You received this email because you are subscribed to Newsletters from The Qt Company. ... which I can assure you I never explicitly did. So this doesn't really inspire much confidence in the way TQtC handles this user information. *Note*, I'm not saying it's illegal, nor that I can't explicitly unsubscribe, but then again I wonder (I don't really know) if people registering just to post on forum.qt.io simply to get some user help also get added (semi)automatically to these lists. Do they? > I personally would very much like to see certain aspects of the community > at large to be less entangled with The Qt Company. The qt-project.org > page is a good start. But that requires that someone actually steps up and > says “I’ll do it”. Funding can always be discussed. > Funding does come with strings. Example 2: We were happily chugging along in the forum without much interaction with the QtC, or with the other community channels really. One day a button appeared that went to the marketplace you'd just started. Now, I don't mind it much, simply because I realize and am grateful for the provided infra to run the forum, but there wasn't a discussion or anything. It just appeared. Again, neither illegal, nor "bad" in itself, just saying that it doesn't inspire much confidence that the "community"'s opinion is regarded in a significant way. <https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development> Kind regards, Konstantin.
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