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Originally Posted by ePossum
I think it's just you - I don't think people are offended - they just think that the donation idea is not a very good way of actually getting development to take place....
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Perhaps not.
Unfortunately, the way it is now, not much is happening either.
Individual developers are tweaking stuff they need, or find interesting, but other than the new content lister, I can't think of much that has happened since I bought my iLiad last year.
The technically-challenged among us can't even get a response when asking for an installer/OS integration for fbreader 0.10.2 (
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39802). And fbreader 0.10.2 does seem very useful improvement, at least without having tried it.
Not even "Sorry, it's too hard/impossible/not worth the time," if this is indeed the case.
So, maybe donations are not a great solution, but it can't be much worse than the current one.
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I am saying this with all the respect and thanks due to people who have spent time developing stuff for free.