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  • mox@lemmy.sdf.orgtoLinux@programming.devQt 6.9 released
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    3 months ago

    Qt is still the only excellent cross-platform desktop GUI framework.

    It’s a pity that its current custodian’s commercial licenses:

    • are subscriptions
    • are painfully expensive for a solo developer or small group
    • have a reputation for triggering legal threats and badgering from The Qt Company if one ever wants to end their subscription or (separately) use the open-source license for a FOSS project

    This situation makes me afraid to use their commercial offerings, which in turn means they won’t get any money from me at all; I feel that I can safely use their libs only in open-source code. Their business model is their decision, of course, but I can’t help wondering if their whale-hunting approach actually nets them more money than a more accessible, lower-cost, one-time (or one-major-version) license option would. In many other industries, high sales volume reaps more profits than high price.

    Thank goodness for the KDE Free Qt Foundation.
















  • mox@lemmy.sdf.orgtoTechnology@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    Someone with undetermined/unknowable gender would use the pronouns they/them, never he/him.

    We’re not discussing what someone would use for themselves. We are discussing what someone would use when writing about a hypothetical person.

    If you believe that he or him would never be used in this case, then I suggest you do some research on the history of language.

    Edit to clarify: And by history, I include recent history, meaning usage by people alive today, who learned it in school not terribly long ago.



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    None of what you claim was done in the document being discussed.

    It isn’t a fucking “convention” to push women down

    No, but choosing either the male or female pronoun when writing about a hypothetical person has been the convention for a long time, and using the male one has been the usual default for far longer than any of us has been alive. It’s not to push women down; it’s a grammar compromise, and is not exclusive English.

    You are misunderstanding the language as it was used, and you have jumped to a false conclusion that seems to make you so angry that you think it’s okay to publicly vilify someone… for your own mistake.

    I hope things get better for you.

    Good day.



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    “Personal politics” is a vague phrase that generally just means someone’s views and priorities. There is nothing pejorative about it, nor in the way he used it.

    In other words, Andreas insists the OS developer be referred to as “he/him” instead of not assuming gender.

    The build instructions in question follow English language conventions that have existed for hundreds of years (and are shared by more than few other languages). All he did was decline someone’s proposed change that would have applied a very new convention regarding pronouns for a hypothetical person. This is not the same as insisting that anyone refer to anyone else in a particular way.

    It’s also not unreasonable. We can ask people to adopt new conventions, but we don’t get to expect or demand it.

    Change to a language takes time.

    It’s textbook misogyny.

    No, it is not.