[Adium-devl] Monetizing Adium

[Chris Forsythe]

On Aug 4, 2007, at 9:41 AM, Andre-John Mas wrote:

>
> On 3-Aug-07, at 21:16 , Patrick B. Gibson wrote:
>
>>
>> On 3-Aug-07, at 2.08 PM, Ryan Govostes wrote:
>>
>>> What about sponsored xtras like movie promotion buddy icons or
>>> soundsets? It's non-obtrusive, could get community artists
>>> involved in generating content, and would certainly get a bit of
>>> money for the project.
>>
>> Going further with this idea, what about letting users sponsor
>> their own (and other people's) extras, in the same way that YTMND
>> lets users sponsor their own sites? For those unfamiliar, see the
>> left column of http://www.ytmnd.com/, where-in users pay money to
>> promote sites and have them put on that list.
>>
>
> Just be careful with this since this was what hurts Trillian IMHO.
> Unless you pay your
> yearly subscription for the program you don't get Jabber support.
> There was only a
> certain number of times I was willing to pay for a program where it
> was hard to judge
> what progress was happening. I know that this probably won't happen
> with Adium, but
> you need to be careful with VIP features.
>

I think what Patrick was suggesting was more like a way for folks  
with money to promote their xtras, not to start charging for  
additional functionality within Adium itself.

Chris