Thank all of you for the words of encouragement and the donations. Part of the reality of software development (especially free software) is that one only tends to get contacted when something is wrong or some desire is unfulfilled, which often comes with an attitude of blame. It's always a pleasant surprise when I get the rare email that just says "Thanks for making something cool." Even better is when someone sends me an email explaining how they were able to use my software to accomplish something (even things I never directly envisioned when designing it [podcasting, orchestration, etc.])
Regarding donations: I'm sure there are a lot of misconceptions about that. The truth is that I average enough donations from all my free software projects to buy 2 lattes per year. Not per day. Per year. (Another DAW project whose name begins with "A" gets 16,200 lattes worth of donations per year. Is it 16,200x better, or did it require 16,200x more effort to create? I dunno.) Well you guys just blew that average out of the water, so thanks again. Definitely encourages me to put together a new release. Regarding github stars: Man, if I wanted those I'd write one-liner NPM modules. No I don't care about stars or applause or any of that. I'm just trying to make something maximally useful to me and others. On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 6:41 AM Fredrik Vestermark < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I just wanted to reach out with a big thank you to J. Liles for your hard > work on developing Non and publishing it under an open source license. > Thank you to everybody else involved too, of course! > > As a community, we often forget that developing and maintaining free > software costs a lot of time and nerves. If you too feel like a GitHub star > is not enough appreciation for Non, please consider a donation via PayPal > to show some ♥ and support Liles great work: > https://non.tuxfamily.org/wiki/Donations > > Best regards and a happy new year, > Fredrik >
