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Open-source contributors say they'll pull out of Qt as LTS release goes commercial-only:
The Qt Company has followed up on its plan to make long-term support releases commercial-only by closing the source for 5.15 today, earning protests from open-source contributors who say that the 6.0 release, which remains open, is not yet usable.
[...] Yesterday senior VP Tuukka Turunen posted: "With Qt 6.0.0 released and the first patch release (Qt 6.0.1) coming soon, it is time to enter the commercial-only LTS phase for Qt 5.15 LTS. All the existing 5.15 branches remain publicly visible, but they are closed for new commits (and cherry-picks)... closing happens tomorrow, 5th January 2021.
"After this the cherry-picks go to another repository that will be available only for the commercial license holders... first commercial-only Qt 5.15.3 LTS patch release is planned to be released in February."
[...] The problem is that these releases are in effect no longer maintained. If there is a security issue, or a fix needed to support some change in one of the target operating systems, open-source users will not get that fix other than in the not-ready version 6.0.
Open-source contributor Thiago Macieira, an Intel software architect, said of the decision: "That means I will not be participating in the development of those fixes, commenting on what's appropriate or not, reviewing backports, or bug reports."
"Tend to agree," said Konstantin Ritt, another developer. "If there is a decision to close 5.15 sources, there'll be no more work from external/unpaid contributors."
Turunen responded that: "This is well understandable and expected. The Qt Company is prepared to handle the Qt 5.15 LTS phase work."
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Mojibake Tengu on Thursday January 07 2021, @03:25AM (5 children)
This is not the first time they did it, not the second time and not the third time. It's a history pattern.
Remember KDE4 affair? Remember KDE3 affair?
They exploit
stupidnaive FOSS community only for dirty debugging work, once it is done they take the cream and keep it for themselves.It's just like a domestic violence: dropping a shameless bully completely or leaving for good is the only serious option for life.
Get life.
I mean, seriously: imgui, Magnum Engine, EFL/Enlightenment or something else.
Respect Authorities. Know your social status. Woke responsibly.
(Score: 1) by multistrand on Thursday January 07 2021, @03:58AM (2 children)
We get a little abuse from both sides, gnome not being as configurable and QT screwing over KDE users. Over the years I've learned to live with gnome and currently like it for the most part, though I also quit bothering with extensive customization some time ago.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 07 2021, @09:33AM
Except that GTK's MO currently is to break everything at every opportunity. Which is… less than ideal.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 07 2021, @07:13PM
unfortunately they are currently in the process of ruining the shell GUI.
(Score: 2) by chromas on Friday January 08 2021, @02:47AM (1 child)
The only thing I remember is they ported KDE to Qt4 (KDE 3.80) then threw away all their effort to start all over, making the desktop a Windows Vista-style widget soup featuring retarded technologieses like Strigi and Akonadi (which is still broken even today). I don't blame Qt for that. Perhaps the abused became the abuser.
Well there's this [thedailywtf.com].
(Score: 4, Informative) by tangomargarine on Friday January 08 2021, @06:45AM
Just going to drop this bit here
Those times when you're not sure whether you should laugh or cry
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"