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User Products under LGPL-3.0

Episode 48: Better Built By Burkhard. For user products, LGPL-3.0 grants users the right to install modified software on the device. For business products, it does not. This makes the choice between Qt LGPL and Qt Commercial for OEMs of machines, measurement instruments or medical devices obvious.

Think Slow, Act Fast

Review of the book "How Big Things Get Done" by Bent Flybjerg et al. If complex projects run over budget, they do so spectacularly. Experimenting heavily during architecture gets the big decisions right - early. Implementing the right decisions efficiently saves tons of money. Think slow, act fast!