#Qt commercial prices android#
#Qt commercial prices software#

Whether you are entitled to support and how much would depend on the scale of your operation. Surely it must be safe to develop open source applications, but the question is who will pay for an open source application? Maybe a few people will pay for support, but that implies you already have a business with support staff, which is hardly the case of start-up indie developers.ДЄ much better option for indie developers would be to get commercial license at the cost of 10% of your application sales. With all the ambiguity the only good LGPL serves is to attract more potential commercial customers, not to mention it can very well entrap naive people into legal troubles.

#Qt commercial prices android#

And this only for the currently supported platforms, there is still the possibility to jack the price even further once iOS and Android are supported.

#Qt commercial prices software#

So how does one start developing and selling his software so he can reach the point of being able to afford either the ridiculously high priced commercial license or the ridiculously high priced legal council?ДЄnd excuse me but those prices are not just high relative to the standards of people who live east of Germany, they are also quite high compared to other similar products:ДЄnd all those include multiple platform support, which for Qt comes at in excess of 6000 euro. Maybe I'd understand if they (over)paid as much as Nokia, but getting it so cheap and milking it so hard draws a picture in a pretty greedy tone.ДЄnd while some people say 'what do you care, just use LGPL and link dynamically' but many others seem to think that if you develop closed source applications you pretty much have to go commercial, the whole subject is very vague, everyone gives a vague answer, so the poor independent developer is faced with a dilemma - just as he can't afford to buy a commercial license he can't also afford to get sued. It is a very ugly thing that Digia don't take into consideration the financial capabilities of developers, especially after they got Qt literally for peanuts.

I never ever resorted to customer support with the exception of returning faulty hardware. But hey, since when do rich people give a damn about the poor? That is right, the average monthly pay where I come from is less than a day's pay of an average C++ developer in western nations. And I keep hearing stuff like 'It is not expensive' mostly by people whose sight goes about as far as their noses, in complete ignorance of the fact many people in the world still have to survive and provide for families with monthly pay that is lower than a day's pay for others.

It is a pity Digia doesn't distinguish between rich corporations and poor independent developers.