I think Launchy's model is nice. Suggest a (modifiable/optional) donation on download page, but don't force anything.
2016-02-14 12:21 GMT-08:00 Gez <listas@...360...3059...>:
> El jue, 11-02-2016 a las 14:52 -0500, Martin Owens escribió:
>> On Thu, 2016-02-11 at 20:38 +0100, Sebastian Zartner wrote:
>> > as I assume the network infrastructure wouldn't allow a huge
>> > amount of daily downloads.
>>
>> As mentioned before, the network infrastructure is serving 40TB a
>> month
>> from our live website. (That's the equivalent of 950,000 downloads of
>> the windows installer per month) which is A LOT. (please don't use
>> this
>> as a statistic, the logs tell a more direct picture that's not that
>> high.)
>
> I insist that a charging for binaries could be an excellent way to get
> funds to get funding for the less sexy tasks (the ones that take away
> fun from working in free-software projects).
> What about a "pay what you want" model starting by 1 usd?
> Not comfortable with that? What about a pay what you want, and a part
> of that money goes to a charity, as Humble Indie Bundle does?
A problem with this is that a paywall on the official site will drive
people to unofficial download locations, and these may contain trojans
or other malware. (See the SourceForge fiasco, though apparently they
stopped doing that.)
Some kind of button or interstitial that would encourage people to
donate when downloading Inkscape would be okay, but a full-on paywall
doesn't seem like a good idea to me.
Best regards, Krzysztof
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