On Wednesday, February 19, 2014 21:18:25 Thomas Zander wrote: > The beliefs of freedom are not at all hurt by someone taking that FLOSS and > packaging it for a fee. There is no incompatibility there.
Agreed, and this could be an opportunity to explore what is possible there. Perhaps the way we’ve been distributing KDE applications on platforms such as Windows and Mac is not the best. KDE Connect already goes through an application store on Android, though it is made available at no cost. People can always get the sources and build for themselves, but for these other platforms it could make sense to offer binaries via app stores and even charge a small fee. I know that I would happily pay a couple euros (or whatever) for KDE Connect on Android ... I do think we should keep the discussions of monetization separate from community hosting, however. They are not related, as can be seen by all the Linux distros who take the source code we write and monetize it. Some give back (some do so significantly, in fact), others don’t .. we don’t seem to be bothered by it. So definitely a topic for further discussion, and one that is sure to have a variety of points of view within KDE ... but perhaps we should separate it from issues of hosting projects. Our manifesto says nothing about monetization, probably because that isn’t part of the core values that defines KDE’s identity: freedom and community do. -- Aaron J. Seigo _______________________________________________ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community