Well whatever it they're doing guilt tripping people into giving them money for something that's free everywhere else isn't helping.
Woa. Wait a minute. They're merely asking for a donation, which can be set to zero. What's the issue with that? This entitled attitude is what irks me about the OSS movement at large. To a larger extent it puts me and people like me off of open source. More projects should take this approach. I thought that it's free as in Liberty, not as in ride. That's what we're constantly told.
> We want users to understand that they’re pretty much cheating the system when they choose not to pay for software.
http://blog.elementary.io/post/110645528530/payments
No, their clone can bitrot, they deserve it.
Wow.
I think it would be more accurate to say that they are trying to expand the Linux market by wooing those whose main barrier to using Linux is the UI/UX. Whether or not you find the endeavor to be "noble", the attempt is worth something to the Linux landscape even if your takeaway is "don't run it quite like them".