-1 It's not the cost that I'm concerned with, it's the community motivation that worries me.
If we have a paid app store, we will not only end up with every tom/dick/harry submitting crappy apps (just like every other store), but it also changes the motivation of the community to be commercially driven, rather than kudos. Personally, I feel something like this would become the cancer of our community, and should be avoided - especially since the Django contributors themselves give so much for free and ask so little in return. At the same time, there is nothing stopping you from creating your own store and selling the modules yourself - if you really wanted to. Cal On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 7:35 AM, Slava Kravchenko <slavkra...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > > our web development agency uses Django basically for all stuff we are > doing. We love it, we love Django community and open-source. We even have > some open-sourced apps. > > We also have some apps, which can't be open-sourced now for some reason, > but we're interested in selling them. We know that there are some other > agencies that have such apps. > > What I want to discuss is a "Django Marketplace" thing, like WordPress > Marketplace or Magento Connect. A place, where developers will be able to > sell apps to other developers or complete projects to end-users. > > About a year ago, Jacob-Kaplan Moss wrote a post on this topic in his > blog: http://jacobian.org/writing/paid-django-apps/ . It has some > negative and some positive comments about selling Django apps. > > I want to ask you again, what you think about such service? Would you buy > or sell apps (or paid support) out there and why? > > -- > Slava Kravchenko > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-users/-/LrxAHCv0sQcJ. > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
