Emacs for Android

Posted Jun 30, 2023 22:08 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Emacs for Android by halla
Parent article: Emacs for Android

Unrelated to Emacs-on-Android discussion:

* The money the port brings in through in-app donations couldn't even be classified as pin money.
* We now have about as many regular Android users as Windows users.

And that's precisely why free software is dead on arrival: there is no money in it.

Open Source software have very easy and well-working way out: build your piece of Open Source software as “base platform”. Something free which is not really usable by itself but which can be used by proprietary software competitors to build their products.

Then you can get some money from these proprietary competitors funneled into “base platform”. Just make sure you are not building open core thingie which is actually usable without proprietary parts and you would have enough money to thrive.

Free Software? No answer to this funding question at all. Free software rejects proprietary software which means there are no way to fund it's development.

Emacs for Android

Posted Jul 2, 2023 9:57 UTC (Sun) by halla (subscriber, #14185) [Link]

Krita is not dead on arrival, it arrived more than a decade ago, and has millions of users. It is very much alive. And we fund over half a dozen developers from income derived from Krita.

It's the Android Play Store that's a bad place to make money.