I am reposting the @oneforty response to my blog post here for the benefit of everyone: ---------------------------------------
Hey everyone, thank you for taking the time to help us better understand and better serve the developer community. We read this and shared it with our investors, advisors and even our @oneforty and @pistachio Twitter readers. We're glad this conversation about the contract is happening. We've been trying to gather feedback via our developer alpha this summer and the Twitter API developers list. We're listening earnestly. We especially want to get this contract right before we start pilot tests that will let developers sell directly on oneforty. There's also a bunch of things you didn't raise (others have) that we're changing. just a few of them: -We already killed the "we get a share of offsite sales" clause -We are seriously reexamining how to improve the minimum payments threshold and time delay before payments get sent out -We're changing the cancellation terms These -- and quite a few other -- things are being actively reevaluated. We know it's lame to hear "we're working on it" as our main answer to you right now, but that's the plain truth. Quick specifics on what you raised: 2.1 Needs to be more clearly expressed what this even means. This unclear language confused at least one developer into thinking our model is royalty based (it's not) and that all payments would be made to developers as "donations/gifts" instead of regular income (they're not going to be) 2.2 Trial versions should only apply to trial versions distributed through us. Not ANY trial version you ever share. 3.2 We're not trying to force you to provide phone support, so we need to rewrite that 4.0 FEES - we agree we need much more explanation and support around how we imagine all of this working 5.2 We need to work out fair terms under which the customer relationship gets shared. What's in the contract now ain't it yet. We'd particularly love to hear your concerns about sharing the relationship with the customer fairly. (ie, the part about not contacting them in any way except to provide support.) That's a tough one to figure out. Whatever we end up with needs to protect developers, oneforty and honor oneforty community privacy expectations. We feel strongly that the marketplace needs to grow as a partnership between oneforty and the communities it serves. More on why we feel this way, from our FAQ http://oneforty.com/pages/faq#developers What if I disagree with the terms of the developer contract? Tell us. We're here to cultivate and serve a community in which everybody thrives. If our terms preclude that, we're not doing our jobs, and we want to know it. We rely heavily on feedback from the developer community Thanks for opening up this dialog and we look forward to more of it. Warmly, Laura, Mike, Michael & Robby (@oneforty) Laura Fitton (@pistachio) Mike Champion (@graysky) Michael Macasek (@macasek) Robby Grossman (@freerobby)
