Ordinarily i'd keep this e-mail line on translation or more festive/helpful business ( ;) ), but i thought i should mention this topic incase it hasn't come up yet. (I'd especially like some feedback to the group from anyone over on the elementaryOS side). Hoping to provoke some discussion.
Have you seen this? http://blog.elementaryos.org/post/110645528530/payments Specifically: /*We want users to understand that they’re pretty much cheating the system when they choose not to pay for software*. We didn’t exclude a $0 button to deceive you; we believe our software really is worth something. And it’s not like we’re making money to buy yachts; currently the only people who have received money for working on elementary OS have been community members through //our bounty program <https://www.bountysource.com/teams/elementary>//. /Elementary is still /allowing /you to manually type in "$0" for your contribution, but they are taking a disturbing stance in this. I don't think they should be telling users they're 'cheating the system' by acquiring OSS freely when it was always free in the past. Noone need be made to feel guilty over it. And arguing "we're charging now because we think it's worth something" doesn't stand up either - as well we know in the linux world, quality is not necessarily dependent on pricetag but more by dedication and hours gone into it. They should have said "right, we're going to start charging $x from now on, sorry" and left it at that, not gone half-way and told the userbase they were /cheating the system/. The sourcecode's still free up on github. Anthony -- Launchpad translator and linux chemist ^_^ https://launchpad.net/~untaintableangel
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