Hi PhobosK,
when I read my post after some days of holidays, I think I was too direct and didn't take time to debate (I like debating
).
I do think this isn't a question of morality, you are talking about a philosophy. Coding for open source is a philosophy. Like helping on a board is a philosophy. I help here out of fun, and will go on like that, even when it's commercial. I also help an other coder on XDA to renew his user guide for his great app for fun, I don't earn anything and don't want to.
Coding for your personnal means is an other. IMO morality has nothing to do with this, because at no time there is a question of "is it good or bad or will I hurt somebody".
I do understand what you say, I'm always donating to app I think usefull to me, this a very good rating indeed. As to show my rating, I always put in my sig on XDA what I donated for. As to do so, I express my gratitude to the developpers.
The time spent on these apps are monstruous (I wouldn't succeed to spend more than one hour a day on it, except if I would skip sleeping), yes other developpers also spend lots of time, and stay free. This is their reward, to be able to stay free. If their motivation doesn't fail, then they'll stay free until they're bored of coding or bored that people don't recognise their work (no donation). Some will also never complain about that and will go on working for free, w/o receiving any money, or very few; that's their way of living their passion.
PhobosK wrote:Anyway all i have to say is that the G-Alarm WAS a relatively good application for me... until i discovered it has become paid...
This reminds me of a debate I had with my bro about something totally different, but the essence is similar. My bro told me: "man I hate this music band now, the singer is just so stupid, he said that and that and that. Just so lame". I asked him then what he was thinking about the music itself, he said to me that he found it actually great. So he won't listen to this band because the singer was now stupid to his eyes.
Wih this I want to show that my bro stopped listening to some great sound just because he was making a fixation on the actions of the singer. This a a way to think, I just respect it because i kind of understand why he's thinking like that.
If you stop using G-Alarm because you do not agree with the dev philosphy, it's fine, and I understand it also
.
If one doesn't accept the path of an other, then one should either not interfere or try to understand him, but never judge, this is part of my own philosophy.
And as to judge your post and signature, you're also someone who does think before talking (except if you quote that out of the blue but I don't think so) and I like that
.
. We all have our point of views on everything, sharing them IMO interesting.
