It might be different if it went to a charity of your choice. I've been to conferences where the entrance fee was just a token amount to make sure you didn't re

It might be different if it went to a charity of your choice. I've been to conferences where the entrance fee was just a token amount to make sure you didn't register, reserve a spot, and didn't show. Or first-class train tickets: you don't pay for more expensive seats, you pay for it being expensive and keeping other people away. People from rich countries that have the spare time and skills to write reasonably decent software are likely to have $100 of disposable money per year and would probably be donating anyway, so a donation might be reasonable, and I'd understand if Apple takes a few dollars to do <whatever they claim to currently use this money for, I imagine there is some sort of vetting going on even if it's only to check that you're not on their malware authors blacklist> but it really won't cost a full $100 per developer per year. For that money they can fly in from the nearest English-speaking country to verify my scowl.