Fri, 24 Apr 2015 16:22:43 +0200 Marcin M. <marmistrz...@gmail.com>:
Martin: free software is really great unless you have to pay for a
place to sleep and for stuff to eat, e.g. as a univerisity student.
You don't get a big revenue from donations unless you create something
really big (e.g. the Whatsapp clients). And you rarely create big
stuff. If you need money for such things, a payment in a store is
superior to a donation method. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Of course you can't depend on donations as your sole source of income
(well, unless you re developing Dwarf Fortress[0] :) ), but they are
still a nice appreciation of all the hard work developers do *in their
free* time to give software and applications to users *for free*. So it
is should be as easy as possible for users to appreciate the work
developers of free (and often also open source) software do, preferably
by directly integration it in the application repository.
And I don't think you can say donations and payments can be superior to
each other as I see them as two separate things that might even be
sometimes combined (I can actually imagine someone sending a donation to
the author of a paid
application if the person really likes the app).
Best Wishes
Martin Kolman
[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_Fortress#History
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Marcin
2015-04-17 0:49 GMT+02:00 Martin Kolman <martin.kol...@gmail.com
<mailto:martin.kol...@gmail.com>>:
Thu, 16 Apr 2015 05:27:46 +0000 Karl Granström
<karl.granst...@jolla.com <mailto:karl.granst...@jolla.com>>:
Hi,
We are still working hard on it but the tablet support work
has been eating our resources from this area. But some good
news is that we are planing to launch the donation support in
Store in really near future.
That's a really good news! Especially for for developers that
don't want to place any artificial barriers (such as requiring a
payment) between users and their applications but still want to
give the users a way of showing their gratitude and helping with
furter development. :) This seems to work quite nicely in the
Mozilla extension repository and elsewhere, so it is really good
the see it also coming to the Jolla store. :)
Best Wishes
Martin Kolman
Br,
Karl
On 15 Apr 2015, at 20:06, Marcin M.
<marmistrz...@gmail.com <mailto:marmistrz...@gmail.com>>
wrote:
Hi,
Any ETA for the support for commercial apps for Sailfish?
IIRC, it was the second half of 2014, :) so time long past :)
Regards,
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Marcin
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