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Hey Ben! I'm actually helping out the growl team work towards 1.4. That's entirely an option. This model is similar to Textmate and XChat which remain open sou

Hey Ben! I'm actually helping out the growl team work towards 1.4. That's entirely an option. This model is similar to Textmate and XChat which remain open source but if you want to download the binary version you can either pay for them a well tested version from a trusted source to help support the project or find any number of the third party builds from questionable sources. Paying the $2 gives you unlimited updates forever in the store and helps support a full time dev working on the project is all. Growl is used by thousands but is maintained by 4ish people people (and now me) in their free time and it doesn't get the attention it needs. (On another note, we should grab a drink sometime! Haven't ran into you in months!)

dotBen 15y ago
Absolutely, people should definitely support the software if they use + enjoy it. As you'll note from my parent comment, I carefully wrote: "and give folks the option to buy it in the App Store or download the community version." I intentionally framed this about empowering everyone to exercise the choice afforded to them under the New BSD License rather than specifically saying "just get it for free", etc. Yes, we should definitely catch up sometime soon :) EDIT: also just to point out: "or find any number of the third party builds from questionable sources" You know, if you guys offered a free, open source community edition then folks wouldn't need to obtain the build from a 'questionable source'. Just sayin' ;). You could even just provide official MD5 Checksums for the binary of the compilation of undoctored code from the current release. That would help people know there were no 'added backdoors'/malware etc in the software obtained from a 3rd party.