Imagine you created your very first app. You developed the concept, workedtirelessly on the key features, design, tested it and fixed the bugs. Themoment has...
Developers deserve to be paid for their time though…
If I buy you a free drink at a bar, say “hey do you want this?”, and you accept, do I then “deserve” to be able to follow you home afterwards and know where you live?
At the end of the day nobody held a gun to anybody’s head and forced them to develop an application, and especially nobody then forced them to give that application away for free.
EDIT: Likewise I don’t think developers of such free (as in beer) software owe their users anything beyond the basic expectation that their software isn’t malware.
If I buy you a free drink at a bar, say “hey do you want this?”, and you accept, do I then “deserve” to be able to follow you home afterwards and know where you live?
At the end of the day nobody held a gun to anybody’s head and forced them to develop an application, and especially nobody then forced them to give that application away for free.
EDIT: Likewise I don’t think developers of such free (as in beer) software owe their users anything beyond the basic expectation that their software isn’t malware.