Maybe I’m wrong but this is how I understand it. IMHO some peoples may be push from contributing anything because there are some people who are getting paid for work on Fritzing and some not. But this is open source right? There can appear a dev who would like to contribute to it, just single patch or part or whatever, will he/she will get some extra bonus from that? No.
It’s obvious, coffee, time spent on software, giving Your private time to develop program. I would like to have a clear view here, If I pay for something to use, let’s name it the buy, price, order sw or something but not using “donation” as payment for something. So to get precompiled executable I need to give You a present to use the software (made an assumption I’m not a developer and I cannot build the SW from the source). According the common definition donation is a gift. But assuming You are a new user, paying donation, install the software and You dislike it, what about then? Donation refunding? It may be a point which will scare a new users from try the software.
If You already know Fritzing and download the app again You may exactly know what to expect. I am not criticize the idea of paying for the software IMHO this is a saint law of developers who just want to get some benefits from the hard job.īut apart of this I have some opinion regarding this. Thanks for answers in this topic and for clarification.
