Would you stop working at google to become a shareware developer? Hehe... a mac user can dream...
seyDoggy: Most proxy items work for me in Leopard... have you done the QS (or even Leopard) reinstall dance? On Mar 15, 7:47 pm, David Chartier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 29, 10:12 am, AIcor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Compensation is not a driver for me, and while I would like to > > encourage other developers to contribute, I don't want money to be the > > motivation. I would like any proceeds to go to charity and I may set > > up a foundation to facilitate this. > > Thanks for the responses on this list Alcor. They certainly do help. > > However, It sounds like you may be misunderstanding the offers from > enthusiastic users to offer compensation for Quicksilver as some kind > of "bribe." I think it's safe to say that when most of us make an > offer like that (including myself), it's under the assumption that you > have some kind of a day job at which you can't program for > Quicksilver. The idea is that if you could start making enough money > through donations or by charging for a commercial license (even when > offering QS as an open source app, if you prefer), you'd be able to > get rid of your non-developer job and write Quicksilver part time or > even full time. > > I'm in the same boat as many other users here: I depend on Quicksilver > for so much of my productivity, as it's arguably one of the greatest > applications ever invented. But the bugs and instability are getting > painful to deal with, and I genuinely be delighted to make a > significant donation or--preferably--purchase a commercial license if I > knew you or another group of developers were supporting Quicksilver > full time. > > Quicksilver is an incredibly significant, powerful, and influential > application, and we would love to see its developers be able to > develop it to its full, polished potential. That's all the > compensation offers are about.
