Am I dreaming or each time somebody ask for an ETA of payment system in the store, a bunch of smartasses arrive to make an apology of donations?
Marcin asked a question, he got an answer. If you want to speak about how donations are wonderful, open your own thread. Alex. On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 7:44 PM, Martin Kolman <martin.kol...@gmail.com> wrote: > Fri, 24 Apr 2015 16:22:43 +0200 Marcin M. <marmistrz...@gmail.com> > <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 > > > > -- > Marcin > > 2015-04-17 0:49 GMT+02:00 Martin Kolman <martin.kol...@gmail.com>: > >> Thu, 16 Apr 2015 05:27:46 +0000 Karl Granström <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> 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, >>>> -- >>>> Marcin >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list >>>> To unsubscribe, please send a mail to >>>> devel-unsubscr...@lists.sailfishos.org >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list >>> To unsubscribe, please send a mail to >>> devel-unsubscr...@lists.sailfishos.org >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list >> To unsubscribe, please send a mail to >> devel-unsubscr...@lists.sailfishos.org >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list > To unsubscribe, please send a mail to devel-unsubscr...@lists.sailfishos.org > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list > To unsubscribe, please send a mail to > devel-unsubscr...@lists.sailfishos.org >
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