Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: android Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Upcoming New Newsreader for the Mac: Signal Supersedes: Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 20:31:06 +0200 Organization: the center of color Imaging for the color blind probono institute Lines: 47 Message-ID: References: <9eWdnVQgKbylfg3OnZ2dnUVZ_i2dnZ2d@giganews.com> X-Trace: individual.net MHtHwKDJtFqD7prRW8ohsgcvqxAbxk6U5k9wsZBscdu5yR0lJ5 X-Orig-Path: here Cancel-Lock: sha1:YpOle1suS7l2GL9LMvX85EvkHYQ= Cancel-Key: sha1:z1MhYe3Nxxc7tpWDtX144/0a7mI= User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.2 (Intel Mac OS X) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:22651 comp.sys.mac.system:60632 In article , Darrin "Doc" O'Leary wrote: > For your reference, records indicate that > android wrote: > > > I've encourage O'Leary to take the longterm approach. To finance is > > efforts with licenses and not rely on donations and charity. > > And I encourage you to look at all the successful commercial newsreaders > that exist for the Mac. I count zero, so maybe the whole “build it and > they will come” approach isn’t always the best. But that’s just me > evaluating the evidence rationally; not all people like to do that. > > > If he produces a good payapp for let's say $25 then I might buy it. > > What you “might” do is not interesting to me. Yours is an expression of > infinite risk for nominal reward. Unison exists as a product if you want > to spend your money, but I seriously doubt that Panic has made enough back > to pay for its development costs. My interest *is* longterm, and that > means paying a little more now for the prospect of having something that > all Mac users can then get for free and join in the discussion. Well some folks will have to pay for the development of it. The free download will be a destructive factor in the market since the end user can't steer the dev money towards the apps s/he likes. > > > If > > he takes the freeware approach he won't get a dime from me and I won't > > hesitate to download he's software since he vill make it difficult for > > serious developers to get critical mass for properly financed > > applications. > > I’m sure you think that’s some kind of a threat, but it’s not. Why? It's a nuisance and sooner or later the users will have to pay in one form or another. I wan't to be able to control that myself. As much as possible. I wish you > the best of luck building a social network based on your approach. Thank you soo very much! Money can't by you love you know, nor can freebies. But attention you might get. That's probably enough for you... -- teleportation kills http://tinyurl.com/androidphotography