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    Interesting: What if support for Qt development is stopped ?

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      Scylla last edited by

      Yes, that's right but is this a good solution? What is the response time for the support, when there are three parties are involved a.s.o?

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        dangelog last edited by

        Why are you asking that to us? Do you have a support contract with Nokia? Go and ask them.

        Software Engineer
        KDAB (UK) Ltd., a KDAB Group company

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          goetz last edited by

          [quote author="Scylla" date="1299974340"]Yes, that's right but is this a good solution? What is the response time for the support, when there are three parties are involved a.s.o?[/quote]

          I don't believe response times will be inferior to that of Nokia. Why should it - as far as the news told us, some of the team will move to Digia, so you will most probably deal with the very same person(s) for support (if you have a contract, of course). They can provide you with patches if needed and they can of course send merge requests for bug fixes to the Nokia team. I seriously doubt, that Nokia will reject bug fixes.

          http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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            Guest last edited by

            Yes I agree with Volker. From what I've heard the Digia folks are great in providing a wide array of professional services related to Qt. Why would they screw up their customer relations? They've spent a bit now on buying Qt commercial support and licensing business from Nokia and will work harder to get good returns on this investment. And Nokia can focus on development of Qt and building the next disruptive thing :)

            Win win for all !

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              Scylla last edited by

              I think, the future will show us, how good this solution will work ;-) I hope the best, because I'm loving Qt ;)

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                Guest last edited by

                hi scylla I think you used the smiley for wink with a dash in between causing it to strike out the loving Qt part, you can edit it to remove the dash, you'll get the smiley right ;)

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                  Scylla last edited by

                  Sorry, that was a big mistake. Thank you for the hint.

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                    andre last edited by

                    [quote author="Scylla" date="1299974340"]Yes, that's right but is this a good solution? What is the response time for the support, when there are three parties are involved a.s.o?[/quote]

                    I really hope the Open Governance will help to prevent that from happening. If Digia is able to push their own fixes into the Qt source tree just like Nokians can, I think there is an opportunity for improved response times, at least for bug fixes (not that I know about the current times, I don't use commercial support).

                    Only the future will tell for sure though.

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                      goetz last edited by

                      Sebastian Nyström of Nokia today cleared things in his blog post "Qt and Digia, facts and fiction":http://blog.qt.nokia.com/2011/03/14/qt-and-digia-facts-and-fiction/.

                      http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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                        andre last edited by

                        [quote author="Volker" date="1300130419"]Sebastian Nyström of Nokia today cleared things in his blog post "Qt and Digia, facts and fiction":http://blog.qt.nokia.com/2011/03/14/qt-and-digia-facts-and-fiction/.[/quote]

                        What is still unexplained by Nokia, is what the **** they are interested in Qt for. I do believe they have something planned, but as long as there remains doubt outside of Nokia that Qt is still valuable for Nokia, I understand that doubts about the future of Qt remains. Just saying something doesn't make it true, as we have seen all to clearly in the recent future with Nokia and Qt.

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                          mlong last edited by

                          I think that at this point we just have to rely on the ongoing pushes of new updates and technology to be the proof that whatever is, is. If there is a reason for them to keep development going (and I believe there is), then we will continue to see proof from the results of what is coming out of the oven. Until we all know the big picture, that'll have to be sufficient. I, personally, am content with that for the time being.

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                            Scylla last edited by

                            bq. I think that at this point we just have to rely on the ongoing pushes of new updates and technology to be the proof that whatever is, is. If there is a reason for them to keep development going (and I believe there is), then we will continue to see proof from the results of what is coming out of the oven. Until we all know the big picture, that’ll have to be sufficient. I, personally, am content with that for the time being.

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