Post AwjgNkcgecNWCj4qES by lazarus@fosstodon.org
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 (DIR) Post #AwjgNjTmuDfKepuDiq by doctormo@floss.social
       2025-07-16T16:29:28Z
       
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       I have a frustration. We publish #inkscape on the Microsoft Store, mostly for people who's workplaces or surface tablets forbid them from installing directly.But it's a headache. We have no employees, and the linux engineer who does the packaging is a volunteer. Week before last Inkscape's botched upgrade from 1.3.2 to 1.4.2 in the store (very late) caused about 4.5k people (real humans) to not be able to use Inkscape for an entire week before the install error was fixed.This is ... 1/2
       
 (DIR) Post #AwjgNkBOI6Xmq4J2ga by doctormo@floss.social
       2025-07-16T16:32:41Z
       
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       2/2 ... not good.This is the sort of problem that a paid version of Inkscape would be fixing, personally I don't think it responsible to offer a gratis version of Inkscape on any store. It creates a weird relationship where users *depend* on free labour and are at the same time alienated from being able to fix it.Why do we do this to ourselves? Ask people to depend on us, but provide no functioning economics to make it actually function?Gratis Software: The gift that keeps on taking.😮‍💨
       
 (DIR) Post #AwjgNkcgecNWCj4qES by lazarus@fosstodon.org
       2025-07-16T19:25:52Z
       
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       @doctormo It‘s absolutely ok to offer app store versions as paid versions. It even would be ok to *only* offer paid versions because even Free Software developers should be paid a fair wage.