DanRabbit

“We” is just our developer community. Folks that have write access to our git repos.

We manage AppCenter reviews as pull requests to a public git repository: https://github.com/elementary/appcenter-reviews

There’s some more documentation for developers here: https://docs.elementary.io/develop/appcenter/publishing-requ...

Hey I just wanted to respond to this comment real quick. This platform fee covers the cost of payment processing and helps pay for the server infrastructure. AppCenter in itself is not a profitable venture at this time and it struggles to break even. Reducing this fee would guarantee that it runs at a loss, which might be feasible to consider in the future but for right now there’s not such a wide margin in the budget to run services that lose money

Yes, the repo owner is trying to make it seem like elementary is threatening legal action, which again we aren't, and after not responding to any private communication, refusing to take down a link to a private residence, and continuing to draw attention on social media they were banned from our online communities for harassment and doxxing which goes against our code of conduct.

Yup, I also made a comment saying that we are absolutely not threatening legal action, nobody here is a lawyer, and it's only a request. So he deleted it

I’ve been selling open source software as my full time job for like 7 years now

Yup you got it. The mic icon only shows when something is using it

Unfortunately, that's 90% how craptastic Ubuntu's GTK theme is. I wish they would have shown off Geary with a better theme and icons.

Obviously that sounds bad from the perspective of die-hard FOSS users, but I think the point that Jim wants to make is that being FOSS shouldn't be the 1 redeeming quality. It's not a free app first and a good app second.