https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/jul/07/microsoft-bans-commerical-open-source-in-app-store/
Fricking finally. No more literal whos uploading FOSS programs to the Microsoft Store and charging money for them while contributing nothing to the actual project. Microsoft is saving FOSS yet again.
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People use the Microsoft Store?
Apparently, as Krita devs say they profit from the MS Store enough to pay 6 developers monthly. So they're kinda seething about this decision.
Freetodlers btfo!
I feel bad for krita. Almost makes me want to donate $10 to their patreon. Almost. Sips.
>patreon
DON'T
Krita does not use Patreon, they use MyKDE
Can't the devs still charge?
To me it reads that random people can't upload Foss stuff like I do currently
>like I do currently
I hang in the Krita IRC, the maintainer thinks it only applies to
, else they're in deep shit and will likely have to scale down if they don't find a different source of income on a similar level
Are there actual morons that pay for free software just so they don't have to manually download/install it
According to https://krita.org/en/item/bumping-the-store-prices-for-krita-5-0/ "store sales still are the main source of income for sponsoring development."
Convenience is far more important than freedom (cost and other)
lol soon wincucks will only be able to install from the store just like on macshit
krita website can just no longer supply a binary and only supply the source code.
This model is "anyone is free to compile themselves, otherwise pay ___" which would then work fine for microsoft's wording and I assume that's exactly what they mean.
RIP no more 8 copies of Audacity for $0.99 to scam illiterate kids who want to make ear rape meme audio on their mom's laptop
Does this also ban the practice of double licensing your own software, offering a FOSS source version but charging for binaries on the microsoft store?
I'm amazed by this thread. I was expecting the usual "MS did it so it's automatically bad and evil and stuff" Pavlovian responses that IQfy so commonly goes for.
Private company their store their rules. Flathub does not have this problem.
Flathub is free
>in price, not freedom
If you're only offering binaries on the store this shouldn't apply to you then
Kinda stinky for devs who release a paid version for support on the store but distribute it for free elsewhere. I know a few projects like that
B-b-but reddit told me Microsoft loved FOSS now, how could that be?
No they only love open source
no they aren't. Tons of FOSS software is not free as in beer. They're just banning the ones that already have it for free as in beer, elsewhere. Not even including open source.
The Microsoft Store is a nonfree platform and is a bad example as it is.
But people should be allowed to buy or sell free software as they wish, even through the MS store.
MS store is also a bad example in terms of buying software, as you have to identify your details with the company.
As RMS might say, just go to your local tech store and pay for the software anonymously with cash.
I exclusively use windows and I have never used the MS store for anything. What is the point of it, it has nothing you can't get anywhere else and you avoid the weird fragmented UWP bullshit it does.