Den ons 29 jan. 2020 kl 06:46 skrev Thiago Macieira <thiago.macie...@intel.com>: > > On Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:03:49 PST André Somers wrote: > > On 29/01/2020 04:27, Thiago Macieira wrote: > > > So you're advocating being acquired by a bigger company that has a > > > different business and regards Qt only as a means to an end? > > > > > > Can you spell "Nokia" ? > > > > Can you explain what was so bad about the Nokia period (well, before the > > burning platform Elop...)? I remember it as a period where a lot of good > > things happened for Qt actually. > > The end of it (burning platform, Elop). Big companies with deep pockets are > good for you... while they last. Then people get reassigned without notice, > departments get laid off, sites in high-cost countries get closed. And medium- > sized companies can get acquired. > > The moment they change strategy, the project you're working on and depending > on can be left to the roadside. Just go to the GitHub organisation page of any > big company (including the one I work for) and you can find hundreds of open > source projects that aren't being updated any more. Heck, at github.com/intel > you're going to find multiple EOLed projects for the same objective! > > I admire Ktiware and their commitment to CMake, but Qt is at least two orders > of magnitude more complex than CMake. I doubt the same model would work.
Just want to add here: Even if CMake is probably the Kitware project with the largest number of users if counting developers, I don't think it's their flagship product. That would be the VTK framework (2500 classes, 1 MLoC) and associated libraries/applications (ParaView, CTK, ...). I think Kitware makes most of its money doing consulting/projects using those libraries for medical/defense/research/HPC. CMake just sort of fell out from their development process. So CMake is not the central part to their business strategy I think. I think they also employ quite a big of domain experts in the fields where they consult (i.e. it's not just consulting as "VTK experts"). If there's a Kitwarer here please correct me if I'm wrong. Elvis > -- > Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com > Software Architect - Intel System Software Products > > > > _______________________________________________ > Development mailing list > Development@qt-project.org > https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development