Serif Affinity applications are designed meticulously with usability and performance as primary considerations. The premise of the initial post is flawed. This method will allow us to consolidate effort to promote it and gives us a chance to actually prove it.Ībout: Can the Affinity range of products really be called 'pro'? I think any other method of trying to find out will take years and will be heavily skewed. If it isn't successful, no one loses any money and you get a definitive answer to the question "is there enough people in the platform to justify the upfront cost?". If the campaign is successful you get the money to make the software support Linux without worry about if there is enough people to justify it. You find out how many Linux users are willing to make this happen, you can make larger tiers than regular price to see how many people are ultra-interested. It also is a method of seeing not only how many people want it but also how many people are willing to pay because we would have to put our money up in the campaign. This allows us one thing to promote and allows us to consolidate the effort of people knowing where to go to share their support. You set the price for the campagin to whatever you think it will cost to do the development and we as a community promote the campaign to gather support. Create crowd-funding campaign to gauge interest. The amount of skewing of statistics is so high that using that as a basis is essentially creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. WINE usage would require to it to be worked on for support, then it requires users to know that WINE is working on it, requires users to know WINE has made it usable, requires users to know that Serif is using that data to make decisions on real support and etc. Waiting on WINE to see if there is enough is a very bad idea. Here's the problem, you can't find out unless you give us the option to tell you. They tried it to find out and realized that r/linux did not represent the ecosystem at all. The r/linux subreddit is very often considered a problematic place even in the eyes of the majority of Linux users so they based their opinion on a place that is very loud and not open minded. Yea, thats true for every ecosystem but depending on where they ask the people are louder. It highlights that there are very loud people who don't want to pay for stuff. We received a lot of feedback in favor of this stance. We talked about this issue in our recent episode of Destination Linux related to Open Source vs Commercialism, and the point comes down to the fact that Commercialism is not only a good thing in many cases but also required for sustainability. The problem is that most people do not adhere to this at all, yet companies listen to the loud hardheaded people as if they represent us all.
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