New FOSS funding model just dropped
@volt4ire This isn't new; remember when XChat did it in like 2001? Linux version was free, Windows builds were paid
@volt4ire Third party builds of XChat were distributed instead, pissing off the author and ruining the entire business model
@feld
That's annoying but I wouldn't say it dispositively ruins the business model, given eg Krita (and I'm sure multiple other FOSS projects) make thousands of dollars a year from paid Windows and macOS Store releases (especially given they still have gratis regular .exe and .app releases)
@volt4ire @feld I've been considering this approach for @pidgin. App stores are paid, but we'd still provide official binaries.