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$99 for Apple, $300+ for Windows. It adds up. I suspect Handbrake gets plenty of donations, but most projects don't. Heaven help you if you want to build a sign

$99 for Apple, $300+ for Windows. It adds up. I suspect Handbrake gets plenty of donations, but most projects don't. Heaven help you if you want to build a signed driver for Windows.

hirsin 10y ago
$300 for Windows? Where does that come from? Submitting to the Store should handle the signing for you (not that I know if it does).
- i336_ 10y ago
  I think this is for signing arbitrary EXEs. I'd always been curious how that worked, TIL it's that expensive though :(
  - user5994461 10y ago
    It's peanuts to distribute your software to millions of people.
    - i336_ 10y ago
      Yeah, fair point. I guess I was erroneously looking at that from the standpoint of the financial scale I'm working with right now (don't have a job, etc) and didn't catch myself. (Hmm. I'll keep an eye on that.) If distributing a commercial (or enterprise) application then yeah it's peanuts (or a rounding error). Good point.
      - user5994461 10y ago
        Related story about app stores. There was a time when distributing content on Steam was free and anyone could do it. This resulted in a lot of shit stuff, copied materials and fraud being distributed. They introduced a $100 publication fee. As the story goes, it was very effective to stop abuse.
        i336_ 10y ago
        Interesting tidbit to file away, thanks. Irrefutable point though - it's one thing to want something for free as a consumer, but quite a different story as a creator or developer. I totally get the rationale behind charging to keep quality high. Charging also creates a contract and with that contract be able to enforce a minimum standard. That helps greatly too.
Buge 10y ago
It's $180 from Instant SSL.
- tonyedgecombe 10y ago
  $84 from K Software.
  - voltagex_ 10y ago
    Unless you want to sign drivers. I've had a grand total of $20USD donated, only $64 left to go before I can sign my toy applications.
    - tonyedgecombe 9y ago
      I used mine to sign a printer driver.
erikbye 10y ago
> I suspect Handbrake gets plenty of donations "The HandBrake and HandBrake Documentation projects are not accepting monetary donations. Please instead consider donating to the VideoLAN non-profit organization and the Blender Foundation." https://handbrake.fr/docs/credits.html https://handbrake.fr/docs/credits.html

$99 for Apple, $300+ for Windows. It adds up. I suspect Handbrake gets plenty of donations, but most projects don't. Heaven help you if you want to build a signed driver for Windows.

hirsin 10y ago

$300 for Windows? Where does that come from? Submitting to the Store should handle the signing for you (not that I know if it does).

i336_ 10y ago
I think this is for signing arbitrary EXEs. I'd always been curious how that worked, TIL it's that expensive though :(
- user5994461 10y ago
  It's peanuts to distribute your software to millions of people.
  - i336_ 10y ago
    Yeah, fair point. I guess I was erroneously looking at that from the standpoint of the financial scale I'm working with right now (don't have a job, etc) and didn't catch myself. (Hmm. I'll keep an eye on that.) If distributing a commercial (or enterprise) application then yeah it's peanuts (or a rounding error). Good point.
    - user5994461 10y ago
      Related story about app stores. There was a time when distributing content on Steam was free and anyone could do it. This resulted in a lot of shit stuff, copied materials and fraud being distributed. They introduced a $100 publication fee. As the story goes, it was very effective to stop abuse.
      - i336_ 10y ago
        Interesting tidbit to file away, thanks. Irrefutable point though - it's one thing to want something for free as a consumer, but quite a different story as a creator or developer. I totally get the rationale behind charging to keep quality high. Charging also creates a contract and with that contract be able to enforce a minimum standard. That helps greatly too.

Buge 10y ago

It's $180 from Instant SSL.

tonyedgecombe 10y ago
$84 from K Software.
- voltagex_ 10y ago
  Unless you want to sign drivers. I've had a grand total of $20USD donated, only $64 left to go before I can sign my toy applications.
  - tonyedgecombe 9y ago
    I used mine to sign a printer driver.

erikbye 10y ago

> I suspect Handbrake gets plenty of donations "The HandBrake and HandBrake Documentation projects are not accepting monetary donations. Please instead consider donating to the VideoLAN non-profit organization and the Blender Foundation." https://handbrake.fr/docs/credits.html https://handbrake.fr/docs/credits.html