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The most important question for me looking at projects like git, httpie and youtube-dl being sold for 2,99€... Have they actually been submitted by their respec
by WhatsName 8y ago
The most important question for me looking at projects like git, httpie and youtube-dl being sold for 2,99€...
Have they actually been submitted by their respective owner? If so kudos to this project for opening an additional revenue stream for opensource projects.
If that's not the case, this seems like yet another shady project, like plenty posted recently (I remember a similar one based on the softwarestack used), where the name of big successful opensource projects is used to collect money on their behalf and afterwards when enough money is piled up, they are offered to take the money on terms set by the marketplace.
- akx 8y agoThere are pricing info modals that say that 70% of the proceeds of those apps go to their respective developers. These apps, it seems, have been seeded into the store by the authors of the platform.
- jamestomasino 8y agoAll commits to date have been by the author of cli-apps. There have been no PRs or contributions from other maintainers.
- adius 8y agoSorry of it appears shady. It's definitely not supposed to be. Although I submitted the apps myself, I talked to a few of the authors beforehand. Some were excited to have an potentially additional source of income as (who would have guessed it) their donation buttons don't yield a lot. Others didn't really care and wanted me to donate any profits. This first version is more an example how things could look like, and I hope that the respective teams take over their apps in the future and that developers submit new apps themselves.