Andy's Laboratory

Thursday, January 4, 2007

WriteRoom Drama

I have never corresponded with Jesse Grosjean of Hogbay Software before, but I want to congratulate him on the release of WriteRoom 2.0. It looks like a fantastic application.

What got me blogging about WriteRoom though is a post on Jesse's blog where he explains the new $25 pricetag of a previously free application in response to an angry comment on VersionTracker.

But then I started reading comments on some popular download sites... ouch. The basic thesis is that WriteRoom is a great program, but I'm an evil person for charging $25 dollars for it. And once I'm evil a few other comments concerning Mori and Hog Bay Software in general are thrown in.

I'm not sure that I can make those people happy, but here I'll at least try to explain myself and the pricing of WriteRoom.

Link to Jesse's post, "The life and drama of a Mac shareware developer"

Labels: application, cool

Posted by Andy Kim # 1:23 PM

Comments:

He sounds like a cool guy. Did you see his more recent entries, responding to how his licensing scheme got hacked? He sounds a little too nice, actually. I hope people don't take too much advantage of his generosity. On the other hand, this almost makes me want to start programming again, so I could code a plugin for him. :)

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