Qt 5.0 released [LWN.net]

Qt 5.0 released

Posted Dec 20, 2012 1:19 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: Qt 5.0 released by kripkenstein
Parent article: Qt 5.0 released

The business model is licensing (some companies don't want LGPL), consulting etc. No company would do such work for fun.

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Qt 5.0 released

Posted Dec 20, 2012 1:25 UTC (Thu) by kripkenstein (subscriber, #43281) [Link]

I'm surprised that's a viable business. Look at how many people use WebKit for example, and it's LGPL like Qt.

Qt 5.0 released

Posted Dec 20, 2012 4:38 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

You can see for how well for yourself:
http://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/financialHighlights...

Qt 5.0 released

Posted Dec 20, 2012 4:47 UTC (Thu) by kripkenstein (subscriber, #43281) [Link]

? They existed before Qt, how much of their revenue is specifically from it?

Qt 5.0 released

Posted Dec 20, 2012 9:10 UTC (Thu) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164) [Link]

apparently enough as the core Qt.development is going strong...

Qt 5.0 released

Posted Jan 3, 2013 20:33 UTC (Thu) by dashesy (subscriber, #74652) [Link]

This is great, I wish them good luck.