QT now stands for Quitting Time.
Seriously, if you need an account to install the runtime, then how the frogspawn do you expect adoption from the masses? Sure, it will steer people towards buying a dev license, but only so end-users don't think their utilities that rely on it are malware.
And what happens when a free utility that isn't using LTS needs a newer version than an LTS release? Multiple runtime versions on linux, some account tied some not?
Where are the account credentials stored/hashed user side? How often does it phone home?
Makes me think twice about ever using it again in any capacity.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
