Charging is fine. Charge new customers by all means (or old customers who want to add new plug ins) but not for goods already supplied. However, if I understand this correctly, the intention is to charge retrospectively.
Charging retrospectively for a commodity - any commodity - that was initially provided in return for good will or an optional donation is at best exploitative, and seems to me to be actually dishonest. The initial terms of supply constitute an agreement or contract. Changing them retrospectively is at the very least to act in bad faith. I’d be surprised if it is not also illegal in pretty much any legal code one would care to research. On 18 Oct 2011, at 16:46, aubuti wrote: > > grzlhmpf;664066 Wrote: >> I have donated to quite a few projects in the past and will continue to >> do so, so i am not opposed to paying and/or donating but i don't think >> this is going to work. > You may think the old approach of depending on voluntary donations was > working, but apparently it wasn't working for Erland, or he wouldn't > have changed it. It's not surprising to me that it wasn't sustainable > for the author. I'm glad he decided to try giving the commercial > approach a go rather than simply deciding to pack it in. Do you think > that would work better? > > It's also not surprising that for some users, any price higher than > "free" will be too much. But I'm also sure that some new users will be > sufficiently interested and willing to pay, maybe after they find out > what the plugins and applets do. > > > -- > aubuti > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 > View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90975 > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
