<div dir='auto'>Hi Jens,<br><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">
> The Qt Company says that they are willing to reconsider the approach only if
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> we offer them concessions in other areas. I am reminded, however, of the
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> situation half a year ago. We had discussed an approach for contract
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> updates, which they suddenly threw away by restricting LTS releases of Qt
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This is nonsense. What concessions are we to give them that would bump their
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revenue short term if that is their core problem right now? </p></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">They explicitly ask for relicensing components from LGPL to GPL. Basically anything which increases short term revenue in the fiscal year 2020 by growing the sales of subscriptions (no perpetual license anymore!) the commercial Edition to existing Free Edition users. </div><div dir="auto">The changes during the last months with mandatory registrations showed them the potential. (Basically counting .com addresses...)</div><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">It seems as if
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they are simply hounding for concessions and nothing else.
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The fact that they want to burn the field and still think they can harvest come
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spring is to me ridicilulous and seems to be done by someone who has no
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understanding of the process of work involved in their own project on the
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technical or social level.
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I think we shouldn't give them any concessions. <br></p></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto">I am always willing to negotiate concessions on good faith but quid pro quo applies!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Cheers </div><div dir="auto">--martin </div><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">
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