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My First Premium Plugin: Books

Authored by: Stranger on Friday, April 08 2005 @ 04:26 am EDT

Nice try.

When you want to make money on others job - like making deal with book retailers and probably getting paid for it from them.

And now trying to sell your need to the GL users?

I wonder how the Earth might be sad to bary such people.

You are abusing concept of Open Source Community.

Sell your crap to your parents and let them to "make money" for you!

My First Premium Plugin: Books

Authored by: amckay on Friday, May 06 2005 @ 09:20 am EDT

You know, it's idiot, uninformed comments like this which make a guy just want to pack it up and call it quits. And after reading this not only did I stop working on the books plugin, I came very close to taking down all of my plugins and ending support for them, because it obviously just isn't worth the hassel.

So Stranger, what have you done for the Geeklog project lately? In addition to writing several free plugins, I've also written a a fairly comprehensive beginner's guide to programming Geeklog. And not only have I not sold a single copy of the books plugin yet (it's only in beta, afterall), I've also been having reservations about the whole idea of selling it (even though my price was only going to be 10 or 20 bucks). To learn more about my contributions to the spirit of a free and open internet, read this.

One of the things I've been mulling over w.r.t. my books plugin, is giving it away to anyone who has made a donation to the GL project. So I'll probably follow up this post by emailing someone on the GL team to see if they want to do this. It will mean some extra administrivia for them, so maybe they won't want to, I dunno.

Oh, and Stranger, if you've ever even read the GPL, you clearly didn't understand it.

My First Premium Plugin: Books

Authored by: ScurvyDawg on Friday, May 06 2005 @ 12:25 pm EDT

Ignore them and keep plugging away with your great projects there will always be people who do not get it.

Thanks for supporting GL.

I know I enjoy the fuits of all of our labour and will continue to give back to the project and thats all any of us can do is to support the project in any way we can. We all end up benefiting from it in the end don't we.

OSS is not always free and thats just fine people need to make a little cake to live and thats just the way it is.

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