Comments on: Boycotting MacHeist http://tleaves.com/2007/11/28/boycotting-macheist/ Creativity x Technology Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:12:00 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: A Sick Feeling in My Gut | Geek stuff http://tleaves.com/2007/11/28/boycotting-macheist/comment-page-1/#comment-4546 A Sick Feeling in My Gut | Geek stuff Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:46:32 +0000 http://tleaves.com/2007/11/28/boycotting-macheist/#comment-4546 [...]  Tea Leaves [...] [...]  Tea Leaves [...]

]]> By: peterb http://tleaves.com/2007/11/28/boycotting-macheist/comment-page-1/#comment-4545 peterb Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:05:45 +0000 http://tleaves.com/2007/11/28/boycotting-macheist/#comment-4545 The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacHeist" rel="nofollow">Wikipediaarticle on MacHeist</a> has some good detail on this. In short, they donated a fixed amount of their proceeds to charity. The Wikipediaarticle on MacHeist has some good detail on this. In short, they donated a fixed amount of their proceeds to charity.

]]> By: Steve Tsuida http://tleaves.com/2007/11/28/boycotting-macheist/comment-page-1/#comment-4544 Steve Tsuida Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:39:43 +0000 http://tleaves.com/2007/11/28/boycotting-macheist/#comment-4544 Could you elaborate on their being marketed has half a charitable enterprise? Could you elaborate on their being marketed has half a charitable enterprise?

]]> By: RobM http://tleaves.com/2007/11/28/boycotting-macheist/comment-page-1/#comment-4543 RobM Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:54:07 +0000 http://tleaves.com/2007/11/28/boycotting-macheist/#comment-4543 You make some good points here Peter. One in particular I really wished I made myself was that the programmers behind these apps deserve our <i>full</i> support. I don't know if you know about Coding Horror, a popular blog by a windows programmer, which suggested a "Support Your Favorite Small Software Vendor Day" ( http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000735.html ). It's a particular issue on Windows where we have a glut of shareware / small business apps of wildly variable quality as opposed to the Mac world which typically has fewer, better, apps. Either way, his point applies to all platforms and to what we're talking about here. I'm proud to have donated to Paint.net, purchased WinRAR and other apps on Windows. I'm proud to have done the same for Overflow, XSlimmer and Unison among others on the Mac. There's something to be said in selecting a few quality apps that make a difference to you, supporting them properly and encouraging their developers to keep going. Something that gets lost when you buy a grab-bag full of dozens of cut-price apps and only run half of them once. You make some good points here Peter.

One in particular I really wished I made myself was that the programmers behind these apps deserve our full support.

I don’t know if you know about Coding Horror, a popular blog by a windows programmer, which suggested a “Support Your Favorite Small Software Vendor Day” ( http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000735.html ). It’s a particular issue on Windows where we have a glut of shareware / small business apps of wildly variable quality as opposed to the Mac world which typically has fewer, better, apps. Either way, his point applies to all platforms and to what we’re talking about here.

I’m proud to have donated to Paint.net, purchased WinRAR and other apps on Windows. I’m proud to have done the same for Overflow, XSlimmer and Unison among others on the Mac.

There’s something to be said in selecting a few quality apps that make a difference to you, supporting them properly and encouraging their developers to keep going. Something that gets lost when you buy a grab-bag full of dozens of cut-price apps and only run half of them once.

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