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by kristoffer 2753 days ago
Most embedded tooling is free nowadays. Free software has eaten the world and will continue to do so.

I will use a free UI toolkit when I can. Qt will kill itself with their current pricing model.

Automotive is moving towards Android. Qt is not good for medical either because it is not really certifiable.
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pjmlp 2753 days ago
Actually what I predict is the return to shareware/public domain models, where the free software is only the tip of the iceberg of the stack one actually needs for production code.

The trend is already visible with SaaS, Cloud, IoT,...

Qt is certainly certified for medical use, https://www.qt.io/qt-in-medical/.

I have hardly seen any big Android Auto adoption.

The biggest foe of Qt in Automotive is Web stack.

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kristoffer 2753 days ago
Ok I'll admit I'm not familiar with medical certification. I know that the so called Qt Safe Renderer for ISO26262 compliance is a bit of a joke at least.

I have seen two very big Qt projects being cancelled due to Android. Not the Android Auto app but native Android for IVI.

I don't see any indication of your vision for shareware. The trend is towards more and more software being licensed under licenses such as MIT.

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pjmlp 2753 days ago
> The trend is towards more and more software being licensed under licenses such as MIT.

Which is exactly my point.

Give the tip of the iceberg for free, charge for everything else and give as little back to upstream, if anything.

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