<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Am I dreaming or each time somebody ask for an ETA of payment system in the store, a bunch of smartasses arrive to make an apology of donations?<br><br></div>Marcin asked a question, he got an answer. If you want to speak about how donations are wonderful, open your own thread.<br><br></div>Alex.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 7:44 PM, Martin Kolman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martin.kolman@gmail.com" target="_blank">martin.kolman@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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+0200 Marcin M. <a href="mailto:marmistrzmar@gmail.com" target="_blank"><marmistrzmar@gmail.com></a>:</div><span class="">
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<div dir="ltr">Martin: free software is really great unless you
have to pay for a place to sleep and for stuff to eat, e.g. as a
univerisity student. You don't get a big revenue from donations
unless you create something really big (e.g. the Whatsapp
clients). And you rarely create big stuff. If you need money for
such things, a payment in a store is superior to a donation
method. Correct me if I'm wrong.<br>
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Of course you can't depend on donations as your sole source of
income (well, unless you re developing Dwarf Fortress[0] :) ), but
they are still a nice appreciation of all the hard work developers
do *in their free* time to give software and applications to users
*for free*. So it is should be as easy as possible for users to
appreciate the work developers of free (and often also open source)
software do, preferably by directly integration it in the
application repository.<br>
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And I don't think you can say donations and payments can be superior
to each other as I see them as two separate things that might even
be sometimes combined (I can actually imagine someone sending a
donation to the author of a paid<br>
application if the person really likes the app).<br>
<br>
Best Wishes<br>
Martin Kolman<br>
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[0] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_Fortress#History" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_Fortress#History</a><div><div class="h5"><br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2015-04-17 0:49 GMT+02:00 Martin Kolman
<span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martin.kolman@gmail.com" target="_blank">martin.kolman@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br>
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Apr 2015 05:27:46 +0000 Karl Granström <<a href="mailto:karl.granstrom@jolla.com" target="_blank">karl.granstrom@jolla.com</a>>:<span><br>
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Hi,<br>
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We are still working hard on it but the tablet support
work has been eating our resources from this area. But
some good news is that we are planing to launch the
donation support in Store in really near future.<br>
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That's a really good news! Especially for for developers
that don't want to place any artificial barriers (such as
requiring a payment) between users and their applications
but still want to give the users a way of showing their
gratitude and helping with furter development. :) This seems
to work quite nicely in the Mozilla extension repository and
elsewhere, so it is really good the see it also coming to
the Jolla store. :)<br>
<br>
Best Wishes<span><font color="#888888"><br>
Martin Kolman</font></span>
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Br,<br>
Karl<br>
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On 15 Apr 2015, at 20:06, Marcin M. <<a href="mailto:marmistrzmar@gmail.com" target="_blank">marmistrzmar@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
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Hi,<br>
<br>
Any ETA for the support for commercial apps for
Sailfish? IIRC, it was the second half of 2014, :)
so time long past :)<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
--<br>
Marcin<br>
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