To be clear, my decision was only based on the (possibly optimistic) goal of easing the ability for macos users to install, with the hope of extending awareness and reach of the broader goals of Free Software. I think the price is small for what I hope will be greater awareness and exposure.
On the other hand, I completely understand the principal of not paying to distribute Free Software. I support the reasons as well, but am trying to view this from a cost/benefit standpoint. I have no problem at all refusing to pay, just understanding that the caveat is a larger number of users asking how to install on macos with gatekeeper (at least the ones we hear about that don't just stop and quit based on Apples idiotic move here). $99 to hopefully make Free Software more visible to a larger audience that might otherwise not even learn of it. We could also write a post on wgo about the reasons for not wanting to do this, and why we did (if we do). That way we can be clear that it was not a decision taken lightly. (and conversely, a post about refusing to pay to play). pat On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 9:47 AM Alexandre Prokoudine < alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 5:39 PM, Michael Natterer wrote: > > I admire how objectively neutral the first two choices are worded :P > > Yeah, I'm rather annoyed, because the money equivalent of the overall > human time spent on this issue already surpasess $99 a year. Also, > because of some of the comments I've heard on IRC about this. In the > fullness of time, I will either quit providing tech support to macOS > users or just pay for the program out of my pocket. > > Alex > _______________________________________________ > gimp-developer-list mailing list > List address: gimp-developer-list@gnome.org > List membership: > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list > List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list > -- https://patdavid.net GPG: 66D1 7CA6 8088 4874 946D 18BD 67C7 6219 89E9 57AC _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
