I see. In that case, I totally support the decision, and apologize. The clarify, I was bothered by the idea that you gained community support with the implication that it was and would remain free, then went back on that, but that is not the case. Looks like you did make the right move. Thanks for a good product and please continue to develop it. Again, apologies for the unfounded critique. I should have researched more.
On Nov 4, 6:56 pm, Chris Forsythe <[email protected]> wrote: > I think you are only seeing part of the picture and making assumptions based > on that. We accounted for Developers not wanting to tell their users "hey go > spend 2 dollars to get notifications!". The 1.3 SDK includes the 1.3 > framework, which provides a notification built-in. If a user wants to > configure those outside of what the Developer provides, then they would need > Growl. > > On another note, to be quite honest I was about a month away from killing The > Growl Project overall until the start of what we have now was put into the > motions. We chose this option instead, and overall it is a pretty good move > for us. You'll have your opinions that you've stated here, and I doubt I'll > change those with what I've typed. So we'll just have to see. I will say that > we talked to a lot of Developers of applications that work with Growl prior > to making this choice, and they all were pretty positive about the change. > > -- > Chris Forsythe > > > > > > > > On Friday, November 4, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Emery wrote: > > Of course paying $2 for a good piece of software is not a big deal, > > and I am not a FLOSS nut. But I think this move is uniquely unethical. > > People used Growl as a simply, de-facto standard extension to the OS, > > a simple notification service. Developers use it for its ubiquity, and > > its ubiquity came from developers using it. To suddenly begin charging > > seems dishonest. The move will also will ultimately degrade its > > ubiquity, and lose its value. As a developer, I obviously will not be > > supporting Growl notifications anymore, and look forward to the FLOSS > > alternative that inevitably supersedes it. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Growl Discuss" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > (mailto:[email protected]). > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] > > (mailto:[email protected]). > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Growl Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en.
