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noinnion / newsplus

News+ is a simple, fast and intuitive feed/rss reader for Android, featuring beautiful themes, podcast support and full offline support.
http://noinnion.com/newsplus
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Why not open sourcing ? #49

Closed konfiot closed 10 years ago

konfiot commented 11 years ago

It may be a silly question, but why not open source your app ? You could release the source code, publish your app with ads, and another paid version without, like in the official Tiny tiny RSS app. Yes, people could recompile the source code and disabling the ads, but who would, I think that kind of people would have already installed an adblocker on their phones... Personally, I'd prefer paying $5 for an open source app than using a free proprietary app. Moreover, this app is really promising, I think many people could help you to developp this app, once again, look at the tt-rss android client, there has been 54 pull requests since the beginning Maybe it's only my opinion, but at least, please just answer that question, why not ? You're on github after all

zachofalltrades commented 11 years ago

I'll second that. I'd love to work on an extensible rss client. And I don't mind paying for a license either. I think it is a bit misleading to have the project on github and not actually have the source available -- just basically using github as a file download host.

twidi commented 11 years ago

I think its a great idea !

konfiot commented 10 years ago

Great answer, thanks !

noinnion commented 10 years ago

Sorry, I could only open source the extensions. The code for News+ is private.

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Great answer, thanks !

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