[SailfishDevel] Is support for commercial apps a TABOO subject?

[Andrey Kozhevnikov]

what are you talking about? payment support will be added to harbour 
when ready. there are no "avoid plans"

24.04.2014 17:05, Mikael Hermansson пишет:
> I think it would be very wrong strategy to "avoid" payment apps. But there
> probadly is more important stuff in the pipe from Jolla side to fix before
> implement payment.
>
> For example more libs should be allowed.
>
> But about payment how to avoid pirate copying? Would Jolla be responsible if
> your work is pirated since SailfishOS has no copy protection because of its
> nature of "open platform". Would endusers stop use Jolla if they start
> implement copyprotection or similar silly solutions?
>
> I personally dislike install any app that is not open sourced or "copy
> protected" or even SPAM applications... It is just plain wrong. But I still
> willing pay for good open apps. But there must be simple way for payment.
>
> But it's probadly very hard setup generic payment solution since so many
> different options how to pay. I personally dislike paypal but some may prefer
> that. Most of us dislike pay with Cards. And some wants bitcoins and so on.
>
> Not a simple task. A better solution would be to just add some way to pay the
> direcly to develop and then the developer decide what he prefer for payment
> options.
>
>
>
>
> On Thursday, April 24, 2014 09:33:22 tw_bolek wrote:
>> On April 4 Duncan Waugh wrote:
>>
>> " [...] support commercial applications. Is there any news on when this is
>> planned for integration?"
>>
>> No answer.
>>
>> On April 17 Marcin M. wrote:
>>
>> "Is there any estimated time when paid apps will be allowed to Harbour?"
>>
>> No answer.
>>
>> There are also a number of such topics on together.jolla com (and some of
>> them very popular, within the top 30-40 most voted for topics) requesting
>> any information about plans to introduce support for paid applications in
>> the Jolla store.
>>
>> None of them ever replied or commented on by anyone from Jolla.
>>
>>
>> So my question is: is this some kind of taboo subject, or something of as
>> little importance that for over 4 months now no Jollan has said A WORD
>> about it despite numerous requests?
>>
>> A couple of my friends already gave up after waiting so long for even just
>> any information, and I must say that I'm slowly losing hope, too.  We all
>> understand and are aware of the enormous job Jolla has been doing, so we're
>> asking for just INFORMATION about the progress, even just if AT ALL there
>> are any plans to do it in a foreseeable future, and if so then knowing even
>> just as little as if it will take a month or half a year would be all we
>> need...
>>
>> Bolek
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