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Yeah but it kind of sucks for open source apps
by statictype 16y ago
Yeah but it kind of sucks for open source apps
- rimantas 16y agoI don't know. Let's say I wan't to host it myself, I'd pay about $240 per year for Linode VPS.
- danieldk 16y agoI'd pay nothing, and host it on GitHub. In fact I, and many others do.
- preek 16y agoThe OP said "Let's say I wan't to host it myself". So his pricing is right. And the new appstore doesn't stop anyone from hosting their OSS on github - even for Macs. The appstore is for the average user; github is for the better than average programmer.
- sp332 16y agoD'oh, I read wan't as don't want because of the superfluous '.
- president 16y agoyou'd also be alienating a large number of non-technical users who just want to see a large download button.
- philwelch 16y agoIf your users are the "compile from source" crowd, I agree the Mac App Store has no benefit to you.
- petsos 16y agoOh come on. I'm sure they could easily get it through donations if they really can't handle the $99/year.
- robryan 16y agoWould be a good gesture if they were to make it free for open source apps, even free apps that are closed source but don't contain ads.
- trotsky 16y agoHave the terms changed so radically from the mobile store? At least there licenses like the GPL are incompatible with the extra restrictions that Apple places on the software it distributes, causing software to be removed or refused.