@rene: I would recommend reading: https://woboq.com/blog/verdigris-qt-without-moc.html
to contextualize Copperspice's "wins" It is sad to see people miss the necessity for hardware accelerated UI that QML addresses; Qt widgets backing onto QPainter was extremely problematic to accelerate and the Qt company addressed this with scenegraph/QML. Feel free to hate on QML, just be aware you appear to be missing the driving impetus behind it which was not fashion but necessity. Widgets is "done"; it is kinda hard to get a more stable API than one which is no longer being actively developed. Cheerio, Donald On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 4:15 AM Roland Hughes <rol...@logikalsolutions.com> wrote: > > > On 7/11/20 11:06 AM, René J.V. Bertin wrote: > > Not my words ... and there must be money in it so it can't be entirely > > worthless ;) > > > > > If there was "money in it" we wouldn't have FUD licensing practices and > statements about making people buy QtCreator. You get that from a dying > company. I'm old. I've seen a lot of companies die. They all engage in > this death spiral of trying to royalty and license "everything" in hopes > of squeezing out just enough money to survive. > > There have been many spectacular examples over the years. While it is > not quite as spectacular as the Qt Company implosion that appears to be > going on. > > https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fimage.shutterstock.com%2Fz%2Fstock-photo-building-demolition-by-implosion-image-of-a-shot-sequence-101827762.jpg&f=1&nofb=1 > > https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fimage.shutterstock.com%2Fz%2Fstock-photo-building-demolition-by-implosion-image-of-a-shot-sequence-101827765.jpg&f=1&nofb=1 > > Wang was a great case study. They tried to license everything and > royalty everything. In the ultimate human sacrifice they changed > licensing policy after the fact stating that the OS license could not > transfer with the machine. You had to buy a new OS license _at list_ > when you bought a used Wang. For over a decade this had not been the > case. Even "small" used Wang computers sold for $20K because you got a > complete system. The day after that decision they stopped selling > because Wang wanted a hideous amount of money for a "new" license. It > was something like $40 or $60K. The millions of dollars in used > inventory dealers held became not only worthless, but a liability. They > had to pay someone to haul the stuff away when they went under. Yes, > they all went under. It wasn't too many days/weeks after the > announcement that people and companies stopped buying Wang computers. > Nobody was willing to pay half a million for something they would have > to pay to throw away when they could spend about the same money on other > midrange computers that still would have resale value. > > It didn't matter that Wang was the only platform _anywhere_ that could > do multi-person document editing. Something like 7-8 people could all be > editing the same part of the same document at the same time and see the > changes real-time. Even Google Docs hasn't caught up to what Wang had > back in the late 1980s. Wang just had the limitation of Green Screens. > > The first deadly drug you see a failing company reach for is royalties. > The second deadly drug is license roulette. After that it doesn't matter > if they have a completely unique product; companies will simply choose > to live without it. > > The Wang customers gave the document people AT computers with > WordPerfect and told them to pass around floppies until Netware came along. > > Yes, there was a time when WordPerfect ruled the land. > > https://www.wordperfect.com/en/ > > Know what did them in? Licensing. A ghost of a product is still around, > but the company is long since dead. They are still trying to get $400 > for the full package. > > https://www.wordperfect.com/en/product/professional-edition/ > > > > -- > Roland Hughes, President > Logikal Solutions > (630)-205-1593 > > http://www.theminimumyouneedtoknow.com > http://www.infiniteexposure.net > http://www.johnsmith-book.com > http://www.logikalblog.com > http://www.interestingauthors.com/blog > > _______________________________________________ > Interest mailing list > Interest@qt-project.org > https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/interest -- ------------------------------- °v° Donald Carr /(_)\ Chaos Reins ^ ^ http://chaos-reins.com/ _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/interest