Gmail Manager

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

by Ruturaaj P. on Aug. 11, 2010 · permalink

@b0b b0b: I understand your point of view & it's truly sad to see our favorite program breaks and then no one out there in dev room to hear your voice. But then the community needs to understand one thing: Developers are also the humans like you and me. They have family to feed and so Freeware/Open Source code is not going to help them to make something good for living.

I don't know if lack of funds is the reason for abandon, reason might be something else too. But the question still stands aloud: How many of the Users of this add-on donated funds to Developer? This is the area where Open Source Code/GNU GPL becomes unreliable. "b0b b0b", please don't take it personally; it's a thought for the entire community.

Are we thinking that this world is too generous? Are we counting on the users to come back and donate? Do we want to see talented programmers beg for the donations?! Is this GNU/GPL all about? ... Users, you keep on ripping the good work for free and Developers, keep on working for nothing?! Common guys ... support the Program you like, donate handful of funds to the Programmers and I'm sure they will continue development on your favorite project. Remember ... things in Wall Mart costs the same to them; there is no special economy zone @ Times Square for Open Source Community Contributors; nothing offered for Free to the GNU/GPL Programmers as yet; they need to spend money to buy things for living, so they deserve full right to decide on whether to continue the work on Open Source Code project (which anyway comes without any liability!!) regardless of how many (free) Users all over the world using their app.

Please don't take me otherwise ... it's just a thought that I wanted to submit here. You may or not agree to it, I understand. But the fact that "Programmers need money to continue their development work" should remain undoubted ... Alas!