That statement demonstrates the same sort of bone-headed mindset that's driven companies into the vendor lock-down the city of Freiburg was trying to escape from.
And your statements indicate the kind of tin-foil hat wearing, high horse riding hyperbole that is the primary reason why people outside the community don't take FOSS particularly seriously.
Sorry, but Apple already owns the patent on asking someone to kiss their ass.
Not only that, but it's probably their most frequently used "innovation".
The result of this was a rule change by the Commission on Presidential Debates to effectively exclude 3rd Party Candidates from all future debates
Wow. That went well then.
it's just the author shouldn't have been expecting to make a lot of money with it.
Where did the author claim they were?
There isn't a single ad on the page.
There are for me. You sure you don't have an ad blocker running? I got one for Gillette shaving gel, and then went back when I read your message to make sure I wasn't imagining it, and got another one for Speck cases.
but you have to admire his class
Why? That would suggest there's something almost altruistic about his decision, when it's pretty fucking obvious that he's doing this to make more money than his mediocre game would have otherwise. I suppose I grudgingly admire his PR savvy.
While these kinds of "gestures" by game developers remain a novelty, they will be treated as such, and garner more publicity (front page on reddit, slashdot and god knows how many other sites already) leading to considerably more sales than they would have achieved otherwise. The right-on crowd who still seem to think this is somehow a generous decision rather than a cunning marketing ploy will support it with their wallets and the developer gets more income for his distinctly "average" project than he could have hoped for if he'd tried to launch it at a fixed price.
or Channel 4 -- to us Americans they're the same thing
Speak for yourself, ignoramus.
Our business in life is not to succeed but to continue to fail in high spirits. -- Robert Louis Stevenson