Imagine you created your very first app. You developed the concept, workedtirelessly on the key features, design, tested it and fixed the bugs. Themoment has...
Where do they say they’re considering ads in app? Or you mean with developers including ads in their apps, not in f-droid?
Anyway, I am strongly in support of donationware as the model for compensation of developers. It allows all users to pay what they can whilst not discriminating against those who can’t pay.
There’s a lot of donationware that receives very substantial donations, and have more money than they would have had had they charged a small flat fee per user. I would never buy software except video games (just because there isn’t a particularly expansive foss game suite and pirated games don’t automatically update), but I have donated substantially more to foss projects than they could ever charge for their software.
I know free here means freedom not gratis, but I think paywalling software in any way is discriminatory and contrary to promotion of the commons, which is a big part of why I support foss.
Where do they say they’re considering ads in app? Or you mean with developers including ads in their apps, not in f-droid?
Anyway, I am strongly in support of donationware as the model for compensation of developers. It allows all users to pay what they can whilst not discriminating against those who can’t pay.
There’s a lot of donationware that receives very substantial donations, and have more money than they would have had had they charged a small flat fee per user. I would never buy software except video games (just because there isn’t a particularly expansive foss game suite and pirated games don’t automatically update), but I have donated substantially more to foss projects than they could ever charge for their software.
I know free here means freedom not gratis, but I think paywalling software in any way is discriminatory and contrary to promotion of the commons, which is a big part of why I support foss.