Indeed, maybe it's because I'm a professional dev that things like this really get up my nose. It's getting more and more frequent with more commercial debs etc being posted on these forums. Threads such as the "is piracy ok" show real entitlement issues, I think some people mix up open source with free of expense. And it's not just cost, code projects that myself and others have made and uploaded on various maemo forums often don't get so much of a "thanks" click. When people do acknowledge what you've done it's awesome and it really does encourage you to put in more effort and get more involved! But on other times for example 50 people could take the time to download the package of code, tutorial, art, sounds, etc etc you worked on and not one can find the 1 sec to click 'thanks', Really, little things like this do mean a lot and would help encourage more developers into creating more app projects. Seeing work going unappreciated makes you feel either your work is not up to standard or nobodies interested, and both is kinda discouraging. We have to remember that apps are developed on machines but not by machines - they are coded by real people with real lives, and they take effort, time, and sometimes the developer's own money to produce.

TBH i have one new project that's in release state and ready to upload, I've done my best to leave it so that others can easily continue on it if they wish. After uploading, I'm thinking about giving the community and the N900 a break because I can't reconcile the value I place on code with what the maemo community appears to me at the moment to place on it. It's a moralistic thing that's been bugging me to the point of being fed up. And I may be confusing things - Im not from a open source background and I don't understand it. I really don't understand all the various licenses. I like the idea of open and collaborative projects, I don't like people freely sharing commercial code behind a developer's back. Apart from any monetary loss it's not respectful to the developer to do so, I'm sure it would make a developer think twice about developing again if he found his commercial deb linked on a public forum. From what I can see, open source (or what is passing off as it) is not a philosophy I wanna subscribe to at this time.

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