Thread: Confirmed/CAUTION: N900 Ovi Apps require Corporation + $1M USD Corporate General Liability Insurace
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2009-11-20 , 14:12
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Originally Posted by ewan View Post
It's hardly irrelevant. No-one here is arguing that people shouldn't be able to sell things for a fee in principle (and I think it's unlikely any free software people would - it's completely not the point); the argument is that Ovi is all about proprietary software, and there's no need to be sad that a system for distributing and promoting proprietary software doesn't work too well on a free OS.

If people want to ague for a (Nokia supported?) system for paying for FOSS apps, either as donations or as bounties then I'm all for it.
It would be entirely ridiculous for Nokia to create a competing payment/distribution system for OSS and leave OVI broken.

If you don't like proprietary software don't write any and don't buy any but what we're talking about here is what customers want, what developers want and what the platform needs not what your specific preferences for what all software should be like. If you're willing to compromise all those things and the future of the platform itself to satisfy non-relevant idealogical principles then that's sad but not entirely uncommon in the OSS arena.

If code177 makes an application I like I want to be able to pay him for it. It's as simple as that and he shouldn't have to incorporate or buy liability insurance in order to complete that transaction. If he can't sell and I can't buy it odds are I'll have to go elsewhere to buy the application he creates and that people like him creates.